On the capacity of the Gini index to represent income distributions

DOI10.1007/S40300-020-00164-8MaRDI QIDQ1985871zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yang Liu, Joseph L. Gastwirth

Publication date 7 April 2020

Published in Metron (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s40300-020-00164-8

zbMATH Keywords

generalized entropy measuresGini indexLorenz curvemeasures of income inequalitymoment problemPareto distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30) Applications of statistics to economics (62P20)

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