A generalized index of employment segregation

Mathematical social sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 185-195

  Chakravarty, Satya R ^a   Silber, Jacques ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Axiomatic derivation; Multidimensional Atkinson index; Occupational segregation; Square root index; Theil Finizza index

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846928951     PISSN: 01654896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2006.11.003     Document Type: Article

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