Decomposition of bivariate inequality indices by attributes

Abul Naga, Ramses H.; and Geoffard, Pierre-Yves (2006) Decomposition of bivariate inequality indices by attributes. [Working paper]

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We provide, for the class of relative bidimensional inequality indices, a decomposition of inequality into two univariate Atkinson-Kolm-Sen indices and a third statistic which depends on the joint distribution of resources.

Item Type	Working paper
Keywords	multidimensional inequality,relative indices,correlation increasing transfers,copulas
Departments	STICERD
Date Deposited	07 Jul 2008 07:14
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/6541