Ranking income distributions using the geometric mean and a related general measure

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 69-75

  Moore, Robert E ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; RANKING;

EID: 0030433697     PISSN: 00384038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1061304     Document Type: Article

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