A characterization of income distributions in terms of generalized Gini coefficients

Social Choice and Welfare

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 789-794

  Kleiber, Christian ^a   Kotz, Samuel ^b  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0036771902     PISSN: 01761714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003550200154     Document Type: Article

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