On the precarious link between the Gini coefficient and the incentive to migrate

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2019.108880MaRDI QIDQ2295358zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oded Stark, Lukasz Byra, Grzegorz Kosiorowski

Publication date 13 February 2020

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/301945/files/ZEF_DP_291_OS.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

Gini coefficicentincentive to migrateincongruence between measures of inequalitytotal relative deprivation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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