unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the …This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after …

since the mid-1990s are robust to the way in which tax data are employed. The Gini coefficient for gross individual income …

the obtained characterization results to arrange the members of two different generalized Gini families of inequality … subfamily of the generalized Gini families and thus the least restrictive social preferences required to reach unambiguous …

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 …

We propose a first order bias correction term for the Gini index to reduce the bias due to grouping. The first order … correction term is obtained from studying the estimator of the Gini index within a measurement error framework. In addition, it …