Taking empirical studies seriously: The principle of concentration and the measurement of welfare and inequality

DOI10.1007/S00355-008-0339-3zbMATH Open1180.91106OpenAlexW1971896149MaRDI QIDQ733802FDOQ733802

Authors: Udo Ebert 

Publication date: 19 October 2009

Published in: Social Choice and Welfare (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-008-0339-3

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zbMATH Keywords

inequalitysocial welfare orderingempirical studyprogressive transfer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social choice (91B14) Welfare economics (91B15)

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• Ordinal equivalence of values, Pigou-Dalton transfers and inequality in TU-games
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