Inequality in societies, academic institutions and science journals: Gini and k-indices

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 410, Issue , 2014, Pages 30-34

  Ghosh, Asim ^a   Chattopadhyay, Nachiketa ^b   Chakrabarti, Bikas K ^a,b  

^a SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Inequality indices; Lorenz curves; Power laws; Social inequality

Indexed keywords

PHYSICS;

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; INEQUALITY INDICES; LORENZ CURVES; POWER-LAW; SCIENCE JOURNALS; SOCIAL INEQUALITIES; WEB OF SCIENCE;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84901370300     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2014.05.026     Document Type: Article

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