Rankings of Income Distributions: A Note on Intermediate Inequality Indices
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of several intermediate inequality measures, paying special attention to whether inequality rankings between income distributions are affected by the monetary units in which incomes are expressed. In particular, we show why one of the most popular intermediate inequality approaches, that proposed by Bossert and Pfingsten (1990), leads to measures that do not satisfy the unit-consistency axiom proposed by Zheng (2007). JEL Classification: D63
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تاریخ انتشار 2007