There is a vast literature on the selection of an appropriate index of income inequality and on what desirable … properties such a measure (or index) should contain. The Gini index is, of course, the most popular. There is a concurrent … Pareto distribution. But these income distribution functions (IDFs) continue to be described with a single index (such as the …

such networks are exchange networks, communication networks, disease transmission networks, control networks etc. For every …

In this paper we test the celebrated `Strength of weak ties' theory of Granovetter (1973). We test two hypotheses on …

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

new dataset of consistent inequality series,allowing us to explore problems of measurement error. In addition, the new …