inequality (when inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient). This happens when individuals' preferences depend negatively …. A robust example illustrates this result. -- a rank-preserving inequality-narrowing transfer ; the Gini coefficient …

The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen's 1973 and 1997 seminal work on income inequality and social … welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from social-psychological building blocks, reformulating it as a ratio between a … Gini coefficient increases. By integrating our approach to the construction of the Gini coefficient with Sen's social …

of the Gini coefficient of income distribution at origin and the intensity of migration. Bearing in mind the substantial … between aggregate or total relative deprivation, TRD, the Gini coefficient, G, and migration. We show that for a given change …

properties such a measure (or index) should contain. The Gini index is, of course, the most popular. There is a concurrent … Gini) that poorly detect the extreme values present in the underlying empirical IDF. This paper introduces a new inequality … measure to supplement, but not to replace, the Gini that measures more accurately the inherent asymmetries and extreme values …

Sen (1973 and 1997) presents the Gini coefficient of income inequality in a population as follows. "In any pair … pair-wise comparisons takes us to the Gini coefficient." (This citation is from Sen 1973, p. 8.) Sen's verbal account is … inequality (maximal inequality). In this note we show that when the Gini coefficient is elicited from a neat measure of the …

develop a procedure for calculating the aggregate social stress and the Gini coefficient of the merged population. We show … aggregate income-based social stress, and their mean income. This result carries over to the calculation of the Gini coefficient …