The class of absolute decomposable inequality measures

K.G.M. Bosmans; F.A. Cowell

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2010.09.007

The class of absolute decomposable inequality measures

K.G.M. Bosmans, F.A. Cowell

Microeconomics & Public Economics

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Abstract

We provide a parsimonious axiomatisation of the complete class of absolute inequality indices Our approach uses only a weak form of decomposability and does not require a priori that the measures be differentiable

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	154-156
Number of pages	3
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	109
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2010.09.007
Publication status	Published - Dec 2010

Keywords

Inequality measures
Decomposability
Translation invariance

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