Palanpur also shows, however, that at the village-level a significant increase in income inequality has accompanied … diversification away from the farm. A growing literature argues that such a rise in inequality could affect the fabric of village …

Standard approaches to decomposing how much group differences contribute to inequality rarely show significant between …-group inequality, and are of limited use in comparing populations with different numbers of groups. This study applies an adaptation to …

The authors propose a modification to the conventional approach of decomposing income inequality by population sub …-groups. Specifically, they propose a measure that evaluates observed between-group inequality against a benchmark of maximum between …-group inequality that can be attained when the number and relative sizes of groups under examination are fixed. The authors argue that …