Chantreuil, Frédéric; Trannoy, Alain - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 11 (2013) 1, pp. 83-98
This paper presents a general procedure for decomposing income inequality measures by income sources. The methods of decomposition proposed are based on the Shapley value and extensions of the Shapley value of transferable utility cooperative games. In particular, we find that Owen’s value can...