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Tricks with the lorenz curve [PDF]
Economics Bulletin, 2010 This note develops, for the Gini coefficient of inequality, a very simple generalization that directly incorporates judgments on ‘relative inter-group inequality aversion' by making the inequality measure sensitive to the skewness of the Lorenz curve.
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The Estimation of the Lorenz Curve and Gini Index
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1972M OST of the measures of income inequality are derived from the Lorenz curve; indeed Morgan (1962) states that the Gini index is the best single measure of inequality. The present article reviews some of the theoretical properties of the Lorenz curve, relates them to characteristics of the frequency function underlying the income distribution and ...
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Egghe's construction of Lorenz curves resolved
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2007AbstractIn a recent article (Burrell, 2006), the author pointed out that the version of Lorenz concentration theory presented by Egghe (2005a, 2005b) does not conform to the classical statistical/econometric approach. Rousseau (2007) asserts confusion on our part and a failure to grasp Egghe's construction, even though we simply reported what Egghe ...
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This is a unique account of the role played by 58 figures and diagrams commonly used in economic theory. These cover a large part of mainstream economic analysis, both microeconomics and macroeconomics and also general equilibrium theory.
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A CLASS OF LORENZ CURVES BASED ON LINEAR EXPONENTIAL LOSS FUNCTIONS
Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2002JOSÉ Maria Sarabia, Marta Pascual-Saez
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