Income Inequality and the Social Welfare Function

Abstract

After‐tax income distributions in the UK for a period of 12 years have been used for estimating the coefficient of inequality‐aversion ε implicit in the income distributions, the change in ε during the period, as well as Atkinson's index of inequality corresponding to the different ε. The method used is non‐linear regression analysis.

Citation

Moreh, J. (1981), "Income Inequality and the Social Welfare Function", Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 8 No. 2, pp. 25-37. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb002525