Wang, You-qiang; Tsui, Kai-yuen - In: Economic Theory 16 (2000) 2, pp. 363-377
This paper attempts to merge two strands of the literature on relative deprivation and generalized Gini indices by … designing a new class of generalized Gini indices based on the concept of relative deprivation. In this connection, rank …-dependent marginal deprivation functions are introduced. A new class of generalized Gini indices is derived axiomatically. It turns out …