Divergence between parametric income distributions

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2024.111543MaRDI QIDQ6154261zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Gholamreza Hajargasht

Publication date 19 March 2024

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111543

zbMATH Keywords

GB2ParetoLorenz curveinequality measuresgoodness of fitlognormalTheil index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Welfare economics (91B15)

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Cites work

• Functional Forms for Estimating the Lorenz Curve
• Income distributions and decomposable divergence measures
• Parametric Lorenz Curves: Models and Applications
• Statistical Size Distributions in Economics and Actuarial Sciences

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