Income distribution and inequality measurement: the problem of extreme values

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DOI10.1016/j.jeconom.2007.01.001zbMath1418.62439MaRDI QIDQ289196

Emmanuel Flachaire, Frank A. Cowell

Publication date: 27 May 2016

Published in: Journal of Econometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00176029/file/Cowell_Flachaire_06.pdf


62P20: Applications of statistics to economics

62G32: Statistics of extreme values; tail inference

91B82: Statistical methods; economic indices and measures


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