A general class of additively decomposable inequality measures
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Publication:1300683
DOI10.1007/s001990050283zbMath1028.91587WikidataQ56852506 ScholiaQ56852506MaRDI QIDQ1300683
James E. Foster, Artyom A. Shneyerov
Publication date: 10 May 2000
Published in: Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001990050283
functional equations; axiomatic characterization; inequality measures; generalized entropy measures; additive decomposability; path independent measures; variance of logarithms
91B82: Statistical methods; economic indices and measures
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