Duangkamon Chotikapanich; Griffiths, William E.; … - 2009
distribution; mixture distribution; Gini coefficient; Theil index;
inequality decomposition.
JEL classification numbers: C13, C16 …, the most popular index is the Gini coefficient,
which, when expressed in terms of the parameters of the beta-2 … consider is Theil’s L index (Theil 1967, p. 127;
Theil 1979). The continuous version of this index is
()
0
lnL fydy
y
∞
⎛⎞μ …