Tricks with the lorenz curve
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Keywords
Lorenz Curve; Gini coefficient; skewness;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
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