Can We Make Unambiguous Inequality Comparisons When Lorenz Curves Intersect? An Essay

This essay outlines the exact definition of “Equality” and “Inequality” in economics. The discussion moves forward to review concepts of ranking of orderings and methodology of constructing Indices of Inequality with an emphasis on Lorenz Orderings. We also discuss the possibility of comparing between two distributions (i.e. two Lorenz Curves/Orderings), and extend the analysis to analyse the ambiguity of comparisons when the case when Lorenz curves intersect

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Rostom, Ahmed Mohamed
Publisher:	[2011]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Theorie \| Theory \| Lorenz-Kurve \| Lorenz curve \| Einkommensverteilung \| Income distribution \| Gini-Koeffizient \| Gini coefficient

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (16 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments December 20, 2009 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.1977483 [DOI]
Classification:	D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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