Decomposition of Bivariate Inequality Indicesby Attributes

Ramses Abul Naga and Pierre Geoffard

STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers from Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE

Abstract: We provide, for the class of relative bidimensional inequality indices, adecomposition of inequality into two univariate Atkinson-Kolm-Senindices and a third statistic which depends on the joint distribution ofresources.

Keywords: multidimensional inequality; relative indices; correlationincreasing transfers; copulas. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-02
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Working Paper: Decomposition of bivariate inequality indices by attributes (2006)
Working Paper: Decomposition of bivariate inequality indices by attributes (2005)
Working Paper: Decomposition of bivariate inequality indices by attributes (2005)
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