Local versus overall segregation measures

Mathematical Social Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 30-38

  Alonso Villar, Olga ^a   del Río, Coral ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Inequality measures; Local segregation curves; Segregation indexes

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953360530     PISSN: 01654896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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