Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, A B - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2013
This paper is concerned with concepts – poverty, inequality, affluence, and polarization – that are typically treated … preserve both the mean and the median, and the importance of distinguishing between transfers across the median and transfers … on one side of the median. The aim of the paper is to bring out some of the implications of adopting the median as a …