Wodon, Quentin; Yitzhaki, Shlomo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
This paper provides a review of part of the literature on inequality and social welfare, with a special focus on the … Gini index. The paper first presents the extended Gini index used for measuring inequality, as well as the source … decomposition of the Gini used to analyze how changes in income and consumption sources affect overall inequality. The paper then …