Ceriani, Lidia; Verme, Paolo - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 10 (2012) 3, pp. 421-443
The scope of this paper is to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Gini index by providing the original formulae. Corrado Gini introduced his index for the first time in a 1912 book published in Italian under the name of “Variabilità e Mutabilità” (Variability and Mutability). This...