Decomposable Income Inequality Measures

DOI10.2307/1914138zbMath0424.90013OpenAlexW2029490599MaRDI QIDQ3859530

François Bourguignon

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1914138

zbMATH Keywords

Gini coefficientdecomposable income inequality measuresTheil's coefficient

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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