Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Mahmoudi, Vahid - In: The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 53 (2013) 3, pp. 268-276
This paper examines a robust nonparametric methodology for decomposition of change in poverty into growth and … redistribution components. The decomposition is exact, symmetric and free of residual terms. It is equivalent to the Shapley value … decomposition in this two-component case. We avoid parametric assumptions about the underlying distributions and Lorenz functions …