Magdalou, Brice; Nock, Richard - Centre d'Études et de Recherche en Économie, Gestion, … - 2010
Inequality indices (i) evaluate the divergence between the income distribution and the hypothetical situation where all individuals have the mean income and (ii) are unambiguously reduced by a Pigou-Dalton progressive transfer. This paper proposes a new approach to evaluate the divergence...