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Inequality Decomposition: Three Bad Measures

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  • Cowell, Frank A, 1988. "Inequality Decomposition: Three Bad Measures," Bulletin of Economic Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 40(4), pages 309-312, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:buecrs:v:40:y:1988:i:4:p:309-12
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    3. Stéphane Mussard & Françoise Seyte & Michel Terraza, 2006. "La décomposition de l’indicateur de Gini en sous-groupes : une revue de la littérature," Cahiers de recherche 06-11, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke.
    4. Amin, Shahina & DaVanzo, Julie, 2004. "The impact of wives' earnings on earnings inequality among married-couple households in Malaysia," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 15(1), pages 49-70, February.
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    7. Jurkatis, Simon & Strehl, Wolfgang, 2014. "Gini decompositions and Gini elasticities: On measuring the importance of income sources and population subgroups for income inequality," Discussion Papers 2014/22, Free University Berlin, School of Business & Economics.
    8. Frank Cowell & Carlo V. Fiorio, 2010. "GINI DP 4: Inequality Decompositions," GINI Discussion Papers 4, AIAS, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies.
    9. Rosche, Benjamin, 2022. "Treatment effects on within-group and between-group inequality. A causal decomposition approach," SocArXiv f53kz, Center for Open Science.
    10. Papatheodorou, Christos, 2000. "Decomposing inequality in Greece: results and policy implications," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 6568, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    11. HAMIDOUCHE M’hamed & BOURCHID ABDELKADER Salim, 2020. "Concentration of Economic Activities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia," European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Bucharest Economic Academy, issue 01, March.
    12. Papatheodorou, Christos & Pavlopoulos, Dimitris, 2003. "Accounting for inequality in the EU: Income disparities between and within member states and overall income inequality," MPRA Paper 209, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    13. Christos Papatheodorou, 2000. "Decomposing Inequality in Greece: Results and Policy Implications," STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers 49, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.
    14. Kashif MUNIR & Maryam SULTAN, 2017. "Macroeconomic determinants of income inequality in India and Pakistan," Theoretical and Applied Economics, Asociatia Generala a Economistilor din Romania / Editura Economica, vol. 0(4(613), W), pages 109-120, Winter.
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    17. Tushar Agrawal & Ankush Agrawal, 2023. "Beyond Consumption Expenditure: Income Inequality and Its Sources in India," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 23(1), pages 7-27, January.
    18. Magne Mogstad, 2007. "Measuring Income Inequality under Restricted Interpersonal Comparability," Discussion Papers 498, Statistics Norway, Research Department.
    19. Stéphane Mussard & Michel Terraza, 2009. "Décompositions des mesures d'inégalité : le cas des coefficients de Gini et d'entropie," Recherches économiques de Louvain, De Boeck Université, vol. 75(2), pages 151-181.
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    21. Berthold, Norbert & Brunner, Alexander, 2010. "Wie ungleich ist die Welt?," Discussion Paper Series 111, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Chair of Economic Order and Social Policy.
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    23. Becker Irene, 2000. "Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland. Strukturanalyse der Ungleichheit nach Einkommenskomponenten / The Personal Distribution of Income in Germany. A Decomposition Analysis of Income Sources," Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), De Gruyter, vol. 220(4), pages 400-418, August.

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