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In this chapter unit record data from three recent surveys of income are used to make measurements of income inequality and social welfare in Australia. In the first section decomposable generalised entropy measures are used to further explore inequality in 1989–90 building on the descriptive analysis started by the ABS and described in the previous chapter. Inequality is disaggregated between and within income unit types.
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Johnson, D.T. (1996). New Estimates of Inequality and Social Welfare in Australia. In: Poverty, Inequality and Social Welfare in Australia. Contributions to Economics. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-12729-2_9
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