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On the Link Between the Concepts of Kurtosis and Bipolarization

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Jacques SILBER () (Bar-Ilan University)
Joseph Deutsch () (Bar-Ilan University)
Meital Hanoka () (Bar-Ilan University (Ph.D. student))

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Abstract

In a paper on the measurement of the flatness of an income distribution Berrebi and Silber (1989) showed how it was possible to derive from the Gini index a measure of the degree of Kurtosis of a distribution whose definition made it quite similar to the more famous Pearson measure of Kurtosis. This note shows that it is possible to derive from the index of flatness proposed by Berrebi and Silber (1989) a measure of bipolarization that has all the important properties one would like a bipolarization index to have.

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Volume (Year): 4 (2007)
Issue (Month): 36 ()
Pages: 1-6
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Keywords: Bipolarization - Flatness – Gini Index - Kurtosis – Non Decreasing Bipolarity – Non Decreasing Spread - Polarization;

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  1. Ma Casilda Lasso de la Vega & Ana Urrutia & Henar Diez, 2008. "Unit-consistency and polarization of income distributions," Working Papers 100, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality. [Downloadable!]
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