Amiel, Yoram; Cowell, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Starting from the axiomatisation of polarisation contained in Esteban and Ray (1994) and Chakravarty and Majumdar (2001 …) we investigate whether people's perceptions of income polarisation is consistent with the key axioms. This is carried out … responses suggest that important axioms which serve to differentiate polarisation from inequality - e.g. increased …