Constructing indices of multivariate polarization
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Constructing indices of multivariate polarization ∗ by Chiara Gigliarano and Karl Mosler
Multivariate indices of polarization are constructed to measure effects of non-income attributes like wealth and education. Adopting the view of Esteban and Ray (1994), polarization is considered as the presence of groups which are internally homogeneous, externally heterogeneous, and of similar size. We propose a class of polarization indices which is built from measures of relative groups siz...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Economic Inequality
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1569-1721,1573-8701
DOI: 10.1007/s10888-008-9096-x