More on the measurement of inequality

Journal of Economic Inequality - Tập 6 - Trang 277-283 - 2008
A. B. Atkinson1
1Nuffield College, Oxford, UK

Tóm tắt

The article, written in 1973, examines what comparisons of income distributions can be made when Lorenz curves cross, employing the concept of third-order stochastic dominance.

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