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A New Compromise Measure of Inequality

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Models and Measurement of Welfare and Inequality

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In this paper we consider the so-called statistical or mechanistic measures of inequality which are sequences of functions

$${{I}^{n}}:\dot{\mathbb{R}}_{ + }^{n}: = \mathbb{R}_{ + }^{n}\backslash \{ \underline 0 \} \to \mathbb{R},\;n \in \{ 2,3,...\} , $$

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Krtscha, M. (1994). A New Compromise Measure of Inequality. In: Eichhorn, W. (eds) Models and Measurement of Welfare and Inequality. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79037-9_6

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