A note on the relationship between top income shares and the Gini coefficient

Economics Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 274-277

  Alvaredo, Facundo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UTDT ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Gini coefficient; Pareto distribution; Top income shares

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651399788     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.10.008     Document Type: Article

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