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Defence Science Review, 2018 The purpose of the article is to present ways to measure inequality. The article describes the last three ways to measure inequality, i.e. based on the Lorenz curve, generalized entropy and the social welfare function.
Łukasz Jabłoński
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Visualizing health inequality data: guidance for selecting and designing graphs and maps [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in HealthSeveral resources and tools have been developed for carrying out health inequality analysis, including the preparation of disaggregated data and calculation of summary measures of health inequality.
Nicole Bergen +4 more
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Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019 AbstractInequality is important, both for its own sake and for its political, social, and economic implications. However, measuring inequality is not straightforward, as it requires decisions to be made on the variable, population, and distributional characteristics of interest. These decisions will naturally influence the conclusions that are drawn so
McGregor, Thomas +2 more
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Multivariate analysis of post-transition OECD countries in the context of inequality measures
Croatian Operational Research Review, 2023 The aim of this paper is to classify the post-transition OECD countries according to the Gini coefficient for income inequality, the S80/S20 ratio, the income share of the bottom 40% of the population, educational attainment – tertiary education, and ...
Tomislav Korotaj +2 more
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Spatiotemporal Patterns and Influencing Mechanism of Urban Residential Energy Consumption in China
Energies, 2021 The residential sector has become the second largest energy consumer in China. Urban residential energy consumption (URE) in China is growing rapidly in the process of urbanization.
Qiucheng Li, Jiang Hu, Bolin Yu
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Income inequality measures and the middle class [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 We study how the presence of the middle class in the sense of Gevorgyan-Malykhin affects the value of income inequality measures including the Gini coefficient J and the Hoover index H.
Pavlov Oleg I., Pavlova Olga Yu.
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BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Background The COVID-19 pandemic, and its associated social distancing measures, gave profound changes to the everyday and academic life of students in higher education.
Mari Grøsland +3 more
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On Fourier-Based Inequality Indices
Entropy, 2022 Inequality indices are quantitative scores that take values in the unit interval, with a zero score denoting complete equality. They were originally created to measure the heterogeneity of wealth metrics. In this study, we focus on a new inequality index
Giuseppe Toscani
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Measuring environmental inequality [PDF]
Ecological Economics, 2016 This study presents alternative measures of environmental inequality in the 50 U.S. states for exposure to industrial air pollution. We examine three methodological issues. First, to what extent are environmental inequality measures sensitive to spatial scale and population weighting?
James K. Boyce +2 more
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Inequality measures for histograms
Statistica, 2007 While inequality or concentration measures are defined with reference to the distribution of a non-negative character among n individuals, most practical applications are effected on frequency distributions over k classes, namely on histograms, when ...
Benito Vittorio Frosini
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