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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2002 A large body of literature is devoted to the measurement of income inequality, yet little attention is given to the question, Why measure inequality? However, the reasons for measurement bear importantly on whether and how measurement should be done. Upon examination, normative measures are found to be of questionable value.
Louis Kaplow
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Inequality Measures: The Kolkata Index in Comparison With Other Measures
Frontiers in Physics, 2020 We provide a survey of the Kolkata index of social inequality, focusing in particular on income inequality. Based on the observation that inequality functions (such as the Lorenz function), giving the measures of income or wealth against that of the ...
Suchismita Banerjee +4 more
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On Opportunity Inequality Measurement [PDF]
Journal of Economic Theory, 1997 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Decomposable Income Inequality Measures [PDF]
Econometrica, 1979 A decomposable inequality measure is defined as a measure such that the total inequality of a population can be broken down into a weighted average of the inequality existing within subgroups of the population and the inequality existing between them. Thus, decomposable measures differ only by the weights given to the inequality within the subgroups of
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What do Americans know about inequality? It depends on how you ask them [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2012 A recent survey of inequality (Norton and Ariely, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 9-12) asked respondents to indicate what percent of the nation's total wealth is---and should be---controlled by richer and poorer quintiles of the U.S ...
Kimmo Eriksson, Brent Simpson
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An application of the Choquet theorem to the study of randomly-superinvariant measures [PDF]
Opuscula Mathematica, 2012 Given a real valued random variable \(\Theta\) we consider Borel measures \(\mu\) on \(\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R})\), which satisfy the inequality \(\mu(B) \geq E\mu(B-\Theta)\) (\(B \in \mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R})\)) (or the integral inequality \(\mu(B) \geq ...
Teresa Rajba
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Econometrics, 2018 It is sometimes observed and frequently assumed that top incomes in household surveys worldwide are poorly measured and that this problem biases the measurement of income inequality.
Vladimir Hlasny, Paolo Verme
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Do Inequality Measures Measure Inequality? [PDF]
, 2018 In the literature, much attention has been paid to a number of aspects of inequality including the distinction between relative and absolute inequality, axiomatization of inequality, the Lorenz criterion for inequality comparisons, properties of various inequality measures, and inequality decomposition.
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GROSS INLAND ENERGY CONSUMPTION INEQUALITY IN EUROPE: AN EMPIRICAL APPROACH
Revista de Economía Mundial, 2018 This paper analyses the gross inland energy consumption (EC) in the European Union countries (EU-15) over the period 2005-2014. The standard tools in the measurement of income inequality such as Lorenz curves, Gini index, Generalized Entropy indices and ...
Marta Pascual Sáez +2 more
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Life expectancy versus lifespan inequality: A smudge or a clear relationship? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Interest in inequality, including lifespan inequality, is growing. Several studies, using various measures of variation in the length of life, reveal that as life expectancy increases, lifespan inequality tends to decrease, albeit with considerable ...
László Németh
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