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On Intermediate Measures Of Inequality

In: Studies on Economic Well-Being: Essays in the Honor of John P. Formby

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This paper examines the notion of intermediate inequality and its measurement. Specifically, we investigate whether the intermediateness of an intermediate measure can be preserved through repeated (affine) inequality-neutral income transformation. For all existent intermediate measures of inequality, we show that the intermediateness cannot be preserved through the transformation; each intermediate measure tends to either a relative measure or an absolute measure. This observation is then generalized to the class of unit-consistent inequality measures. An inequality measure is unit-consistent if inequality rankings by the measure are not affected by the measuring units in which incomes are expressed. We show that the unit-consistent class of intermediate measure of inequality consists of generalizations of an existent intermediate measure and, hence, the intermediateness also cannot be retained in the limit through transformations.

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  • Buhong Zheng, 2004. "On Intermediate Measures Of Inequality," Research on Economic Inequality, in: Studies on Economic Well-Being: Essays in the Honor of John P. Formby, pages 135-157, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:reinzz:s1049-2585(04)12005-x
    DOI: 10.1016/S1049-2585(04)12005-X
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