Refinements of Muirhead's Lemma and income inequality

Mathematical social sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 201-216

  Aboudi, Ronny ^a   Thon, Dominique ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b Bodø School of Business   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Income inequality; Lorenz dominance; Majorization; Stochastic dominance

Indexed keywords

EID: 32644472996     PISSN: 01654896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2005.09.002     Document Type: Article

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