Cowell, Frank A; Victoria-Feser, Maria-Pia - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2001
Lorenz curves and second-order dominance criteria are known to be sensitive to data contamination in the right tail of the distribution. We propose two ways of dealing with the problem: (1) Estimate Lorenz curves using parametric models for income distributions, and (2) Combine empirical...