Mussard, Stéphane; Richard, Patrick - In: Applied Economics 44 (2012) 23, pp. 2997-3010
In this article we show that the Gini coefficient is simultaneously decomposable both by sources of income and by populations of income receivers for nonoverlapping income distributions: the so-called first-best Gini multi-decomposition. We show that this multidimensional decomposition is useful...