Is the Gini Index of Inequality Overly Sensitive to Changes in the Middle of the Income Distribution?
The Gini index is the most commonly used measure of income inequality. Like any single summary measure of a set of data, it cannot capture all aspects that are of interest to researchers. One of its widely reported flaws is that it is supposed to be overly sensitive to changes in the middle of the d...
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Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2017-01-01
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Series: | Statistics and Public Policy |
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2330443X.2017.1360813 |