A general class of additively decomposable inequality measures

Economic Theory

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 89-111

  Foster, James E ^a   Shneyerov, Artyom A ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive decomposability; Axiomatic characterization; Functional equations; Generalized entropy measures; Inequality measures; Theil measures; Variance of logarithms

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033449359     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001990050283     Document Type: Article

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