Complaints and Inequality
27 Pages Posted: 21 Feb 2008
Date Written: March 2002
Abstract
Temkin (1986,1993) sets out a philosophical basis for the analysis of income inequality that provides an important alternative to the mainstream welfarist approach. We show that the Temkin principles can be characterised by a parsimonious axiomatic structure and we use this structure to derive a new class of inequality indices and an inequality ordering. This class of indices has a family relationship to well-known measures of inequality, deprivation and poverty. The ordering is shown to have properties analogous to second-order dominance results.
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Cowell, Frank A. and Ebert, Udo, Complaints and Inequality (March 2002). LSE STICERD Research Paper No. 61. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1094845
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