Income distributions and decomposable divergence measures

DOI10.1016/J.JET.2011.06.017MaRDI QIDQ654518zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Brice Magdalou, Richard Nock

Publication date 28 December 2011

Published in Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2011.06.017

zbMATH Keywords

mobilitygeneralized entropyresponsibilityinequality measuresBregman divergencesheterogeneous households

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measurement theory in the social and behavioral sciences (91C05) Welfare economics (91B15) Heterogeneous agent models (91B69)

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