An Atkinson-Gini family of social evaluation functions: Theory and illustration using data from the Luxembourg Income Study
We investigate the properties of a family of social evaluation functions and inequality indices which merge the features of the family of Atkinson (1970) and S-Gini (Donaldson and Weymark (1980, 1983), Yitzhaki (1983) and Kakwani (1980)) indices. Income inequality aversion is captured by decreasing marginal utilities, and aversion to rank inequality is captured by rank-dependent ethical weights, thus providing an ethically-flexible dual basis for the assessment of inequality and equity. We demonstrate a few of their interesting properties. We also illustrate their application using data from t... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2005 |
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Luxembourg: Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
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Schlagwörter: | ddc:330 / Einkommensverteilung / Disparitätsmaß / Gini-Koeffizient / Altruismus / Theorie |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27135062 |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/95363 |