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An axiomatic characterization of the Theil inequality ordering

Lasso de la Vega, Casilda; Urrutia, Ana; Volij, Oscar - In: Economic theory : official journal of the Society for … 54 (2013) 3, pp. 757-776

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A simple proof of Foster's (1983) characterization of the Theil measure of inequality

Lasso de la Vega, Casilda; Volij, Oscar - In: Economic modelling 35 (2013), pp. 940-943

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An axiomatic characterization of the Theil inequality ordering

Vega, Casilda Lasso de la; Urrutia, Ana; Volij, Oscar - In: Economic Theory 54 (2013) 3, pp. 757-776

We axiomatically characterize the Theil ordering of income inequality. In addition to the uncontroversial axioms of anonymity, homogeneity, replication invariance, strong directedness, and a standard continuity property, we appeal to both an independence and a decomposability axioms. These two...

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A SIMPLE PROOF OF FOSTER’S (1983) CHARACTERIZATION OF THE THEIL MEASURE OF INEQUALITY

Vega, Casilda Lasso de la; Volij, Oscar - Economics Department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev - 2013

We provide a simple proof of Foster's (1983) characterization of the Theil inequality index.

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A simple proof of Foster's (1983) characterization of the Theil measure of inequality

Lasso de la Vega, Casilda; Volij, Oscar - In: Economic Modelling 35 (2013) C, pp. 940-943

We provide a simple proof of Foster's (1983) characterization of the Theil inequality index.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010719386