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Income Inequality Measurement: The Normative Approach

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Handbook of Income Inequality Measurement

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This chapter is about inequality indexes that have an explicit normative interpretation. By this, we mean that there is a relationship between an inequality index and a social-evaluation ordering defined on the incomes — incomes -- nominal or real -- of the members of society.2 Incomes are typically assigned to individuals rather than households by using an adult equivalence scale.

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  1. Charles Blackorby
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  1. Bar-Ilan University, Israel

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Blackorby, C., Bossert, W., Donaldson, D. (1999). Income Inequality Measurement: The Normative Approach. In: Silber, J. (eds) Handbook of Income Inequality Measurement. Recent Economic Thought Series, vol 71. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4413-1_4

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