List, Christian 
ORCID: 0000-0003-1627-800X
(1999)
Multidimensional inequality measurement: a proposal.
Nuffield College working papers in economics (1999-W27).
Nuffield College, Oxford, UK.
Abstract
Two essential intuitions about the concept of multidimensional inequality have been highlighted in the emerging body of literature on this subject: first, multidimensional inequality should be a function of the uniform inequality of a multivariate distribution of goods or attributes across people (Kolm, 1977); and, second, it should also be a function of the cross-correlation between distributions of goods or attributes in different dimensions (Atkinson and Bourguignon, 1982; Walzer, 1983). While the first intuition has played a major role in the design of fully-fledged multidimensional inequality indices, the second one has only recently received attention (Tsui, 1999); and, so far, multidimensional generalized entropy measures are the only inequality measures known to respect both intuitions. The present paper proposes a general method of designing a wider range of multidimensional inequality indices that also respect both intuitions, and illustrates this method by defining two classes of such indices: a generalization of the Gini coefficient, and a generalization of Atkinson's onedimensional measure of inequality.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/economics/Papers/1999/w27... |
| Additional Information: | © 1999 The Author |
| Divisions: | Government Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method CPNSS |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jan 2011 16:18 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Sep 2025 03:44 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/31648 |
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