COMPARISON OF INCOME INEQUALITY MEASURES
Abstract
The size distribution of income, or income inequality, has long been a concern to scholars in many disciplines tor different reasons. Statisticians have approached the distribution of income among individuals as a stochastic process. Economists have sought to explain income distribution by means, of economic and institutional factors. More recently, economists have been interested in the effects of economic growth and government policies on income distribution. Sociologists and political scientists have thought of income inequality as a major source of social revolt or political violence.
Citation
PARK, K.H. (1984), "COMPARISON OF INCOME INEQUALITY MEASURES", Studies in Economics and Finance, Vol. 8 No. 2, pp. 35-58. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb028647
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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