Decomposition of bivariate inequality indices by attributes

Economics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 362-367

  Abul Naga, Ramses H ^a,d   Geoffard, Pierre Yves ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b PARIS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

^c CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^d IEMS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Copulas; Correlation increasing transfers; Multidimensional inequality; Relative indices

Indexed keywords

EID: 33344462954     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2005.08.030     Document Type: Article

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