Duclos, Jean-Yves; Esteban, Joan; Ray, Debraj - In: Econometrica 72 (2004) 6, pp. 1737-1772
We develop the measurement theory of polarization for the case in which income distributions can be described using density functions. The main theorem uniquely characterizes a class of polarization measures that fits into what we call the "identity-alienation" framework, and simultanously...