The class of absolute decomposable inequality measures

Economics Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 154-156

  Bosmans, Kristof ^a   Cowell, Frank A ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decomposability; Inequality measures; Translation invariance

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649314253     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.09.007     Document Type: Article

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