Decomposition of Bivariate Inequality Indices by Attributes

Ramses Hani Abul Naga; Pierre-Yves Geoffard

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2005.08.030

Decomposition of Bivariate Inequality Indices by Attributes

Ramses Hani Abul Naga, Pierre-Yves Geoffard

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Abstract

We provide, for the class of relative bidimensional inequality indices, a decomposition of inequality into two univariate Atkinson-Kolm-Sen indices and a third statistic which depends on the joint distribution of resources. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	362-367
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	90
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2005.08.030
Publication status	Published - Mar 2006

Keywords

multidimensional inequality
relative indices
correlation increasing transfers
copulas

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