Bayaz-Ozturk, Gulgun; Chen, Tao; Couch, Kenneth A. - In: Applied Economics 46 (2014) 36, pp. 4399-4408
This article provides finite sample conditions for the ratio of permanent to total inequality based on methods of Gottschalk and Moffitt (1994) to be equivalent to the Shorrocks <italic>R</italic> constructed with a Theil General Entropy Index. A simple test emerges of whether the two measures can be seen as...