This paper considers, in the context of the fixed-population constant-sum comparison of income distributions, a number of intransitive binary relations smaller than Lorenz dominance. We determine their transitive closure and we study how they relate to each other and to other relations that have...

This paper considers the problem of comparing two income distributions with different numbers of income recipients. The approach eschews the quot;replication of populationsquot; of Dalton's Population Principle, which has been a fixture of the literature on income inequality since its inception....