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Decomposition of the Gini coefficient

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Justice and Gini coefficients

Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2014
Gini coefficients, which measure gross inequalities rather than their unfair components, are often used as proxy measures of absolute or relative distributive injustice in Western societies. This presupposes that the fair inequalities in these societies are small and stable enough to be ignored.
Theodore J Everett, Bruce M Everett
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THE GINI COEFFICIENT AND NEGATIVE INCOME *

Oxford Economic Papers, 1982
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Chen, Chau-Nan   +2 more
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A Demarcation of the Gini Coefficient

SSRN Electronic Journal
We specify the domain in the income distribution that includes the people to whom income transfers will not increase inequality in that income distribution. Inspired by Sen's (1973, 1997) characterization of the Gini coefficient as a ratio between a measure of aggregate income-based "depression" (stress) and aggregate income, we inquire as to whether ...
Stark, Oded, Kosiorowski, Grzegorz
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THE GINI COEFFICIENT AND NEGATIVE INCOME: REPLY

Oxford Economic Papers, 1985
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Chen, Chau-Nan   +2 more
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The Discovery of the Gini Coefficient

History of Political Economy, 2021
This article traces the development of the methods of representing the degree of income inequality that were developed in the early twentieth century by Max Otto Lorenz and Corrado Gini. It suggests that Gini’s efforts to perfect the Lorenz curve may well have facilitated his discovery of what came to be known as the Gini coefficient and argues that ...
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