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Intermediate inequality and welfare

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  • Coral del RÎo

    () (Departamento de EconomÎa Aplicada, Universidade de Vigo Campus Lagoas - Marcoseude, 36200 Vigo, Spain Departamento de EconomÎa, Universidad Carlos III, calle Madrid 126-128, 28903 Getafe, Madrid, Spain)

  • Javier Ruiz-Castillo

    () (Departamento de EconomÎa Aplicada, Universidade de Vigo Campus Lagoas - Marcoseude, 36200 Vigo, Spain Departamento de EconomÎa, Universidad Carlos III, calle Madrid 126-128, 28903 Getafe, Madrid, Spain)

Abstract

We introduce a new centrist or intermediate inequality concept, between the usual relative and absolute notions, which is shown to be a variant of the -ray invariant inequality measures in Pfingsten and Seidl (1997). We say that distributions x and y have the same (x, )-inequality if the total income difference between them is allocated among the individuals as follows: 100% preserving income shares in x, and 100(1-)% in equal absolute amounts. This notion can be made as operational as current standard methods in Shorrocks (1983).

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Article provided by Springer in its journal Social Choice and Welfare.

Volume (Year): 17 (2000)
Issue (Month): 2 ()
Pages: 223-239

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Handle: RePEc:spr:sochwe:v:17:y:2000:i:2:p:223-239

Note: Received: 13 May 1998/Accepted: 25 January 1999
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  1. Henar Diez & Mª Casilda Lasso de la Vega & Ana Marta Urrutia, 2007. "Unit-Consistent Aggregative Multidimensional Inequality Measures: A Characterization," Working Papers 66, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality.
  2. Goerlich, Francisco José & Villar, Antonio, 2009. "Desigualdad y Bienestar en España y sus Comunidades Autónomas (1973-2003)
    [Inequality and welfare in Spain and its Autonomous Communities]    ," MPRA Paper 19487, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  3. de la Vega, Casilda Lasso & Seidl, Christian, 2007. "The Impossibility of a Just Pigouvian," Economics Working Papers 2007,10, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Department of Economics.
  4. Coral del Río & Olga Alonso-Villar, 2007. "Rankings of Income Distributions: A Note on Intermediate Inequality Indices," Working Papers 68, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality.
  5. Bosmans, Kristof & Decancq, Koen & Decoster, André, 2011. "The evolution of global inequality: absolute, relative and intermediate views," Open Access publications from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven urn:hdl:123456789/305630, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
  6. Anthony B. Atkinson & Andrea Brandolini, 2008. "On analysing the world distribution of income," Working Papers 97, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality.
  7. Aitor Lacuesta & Mario Izquierdo, 2012. "The contribution of changes in employment composition and relative returns to the evolution of wage inequality: the case of Spain," Journal of Population Economics, Springer, vol. 25(2), pages 511-543, January.
  8. Coral Río & Olga Alonso-Villar, 2010. "New unit-consistent intermediate inequality indices," Economic Theory, Springer, vol. 42(3), pages 505-521, March.
  9. Ebert, Udo, 2004. "Coherent inequality views: linear invariant measures reconsidered," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 47(1), pages 1-20, January.
  10. Hedenus, Fredrik & Azar, Christian, 2005. "Estimates of trends in global income and resource inequalities," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 55(3), pages 351-364, November.
  11. Coral del Río, 2002. "Desigualdad intermedia paretiana," Investigaciones Economicas, Fundación SEPI, vol. 26(2), pages 299-321, May.
  12. Satya Chakravarty & Swami Tyagarupananda, 2009. "The subgroup decomposable intermediate indices of inequality," Spanish Economic Review, Springer, vol. 11(2), pages 83-97, June.
  13. Udo Ebert & Patrick Moyes, 2002. "Welfare, inequality and the transformation of incomes the case of weighted income distributions," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 9(1), pages 9-50, December.
  14. Francisco Azpitarte & Olga Alonso-Villar, 2012. "A Dominance Criterion for Measuring Income Inequality from a Centrist View: The Case of Australia," Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series wp2012n03, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne.

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