Ethically flexible Gini indices for income distributions in the continuum

DOI10.1016/0022-0531(83)90053-4zbMath0519.90028MaRDI QIDQ1054632

David Donaldson, John A. Weymark

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-0531(83)90053-4

zbMATH Keywords

flexible Gini index; S-Gini; social-evaluation function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P20: Applications of statistics to economics

91B82: Statistical methods; economic indices and measures

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