An analysis of the bounds for the Gini coefficient
โ Scribed by James B. McDonald; Michael R. Ransom
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 626 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0304-4076
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This paper is concerned with the Gini coefficient as a concentration measure of the distribution. The proposed formula for the aimputation of the Gini coefficient allows its decomposition according to different sub-groupe of the initial population, either exactly or approximately.
We are thankful to De-Min Wu and two anonymous referees for helpful comments and suggestions. A. G. Malliaris at Loyola University of Chicago kindly provided the data for this research. Of course, we are responsible for any remaining errors.