On the Measurement of Inequality.

Atkinson, A. B. (1970). On the Measurement of Inequality. Journal of Economic Theory, 2(3), 244-263.

Type

Journal article

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Primary research

Year

1970

DOI

10.1016/0022-0531(70)90039-6

Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-0531(70)90039-6

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• Distributional Effects
  • In welfare and policy economics, a tax change, trade agreement, or minimum-wage adjustment has an average GDP effect that is uninformative without a decile-by-decile decomposition — the original setting for the concept.

    This sourceFoundational treatment of how aggregate welfare summaries embed a distributional value judgment via the choice of social welfare function.

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