Gini Index Decomposition for the Case of Two Subgroups

References

• Atkinson , A. B. ( 1970 ). On the measurement of inequality . Journal of Economics Theory 2 : 224 – 263 .
   Google Scholar
• Bhattacharya , N. , Mahalanobis , B. ( 1967 ). Regional disparities in household consumption in India . Journal of the American Statistical Association 62 : 143 – 161 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dagum , C. ( 1959 ). Transvariazione tra pi[ugrave] di due distribuzioni . In: Gini , C. , ed. Memorie di Metodologia Statistica , 2 . Roma : Libreria Goliardica .
   Google Scholar
• Dagum , C. ( 1980 ). Inequality measures between income distributions with applications . Econometrica 48 : 1791 – 1803 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dagum , C. ( 1987 ). Gini ratio . In: Eatwell , J. , Milgate , M. , Newman , P. , eds. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics . London : MacMillian Press .
   Google Scholar
• Dagum , C. ( 1997a ). A new decomposition of the Gini income inequality ratio . Empirical Economics 22 : 515 – 531 .
   Google Scholar
• Dagum , C. ( 1997b ). Decomposition and interpretation of Gini and Theil entropy inequality measures. In: American Statistical Association. Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section .
   Google Scholar
• Deutsch , J. , Silber , J. ( 1997 ). Gini's “Transvariazione” and the measurement of distance between distributions . Empirical Economics 22 : 547 – 554 .
   Google Scholar
• Deutsch , J. , Silber , J. ( 1999 ). Inequality decomposition by population subgroups and the analysis of interdistributional inequality . In: Silber , J. , ed. Handbook on Income Inequality Measurement . Boston : Kluwer .
   Google Scholar
• Foster , J. E. , Greer , J. , Thorbecke , E. ( 1984 ). Notes and comments. A class of decomposable poverty measures . Econometrica 59 : 687 – 709 .
   Google Scholar
• Frick , J. , Goebel , J. ( 2005 ). Regional income stratification in unified Germany using a Gini decomposition approach . DIW Discussion Paper 540 .
   Google Scholar
• Frick , J. , Goebel , J. , Schechtman , E. , Wagner , G. , Yitzhaki , S. ( 2006 ). Using analysis of Gini for detecting whether two subsamples represent the same universe: the German socio-economic panel study experience . Sociological Methods & Research 34 : 427 – 468 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Frosini , B. V. ( 1989 ). Aggregate units, within-group inequality and the decomposition of inequality measures . Statistica 44 : 349 – 369 .
   Google Scholar
• Gini , C. ( 1939 ). Variabilità e Concentrazione . Milano : Giuffrè ;.
   Google Scholar
• Gini , C. ( 1959 ). Transvariazione . Roma : Libreria goliardica .
   Google Scholar
• Giorgi , G. M. ( 1999 ). Income inequality measurement: the statistical approach . In: Silber , J. , ed. Handbook on Income Inequality Measurement . Boston : Kluwer .
   Google Scholar
• Lambert , P. , Aronson , R. ( 1993 ). Inequality decomposition and the Gini coefficient revisited . The Economic Journal 103 : 1221 – 1227 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lerman , R. I. , Yitzhaki , S. ( 1984 ). A note on the calculation and interpretation of the Gini coefficient . Economics Letters 15 : 363 – 368 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mehran , F. ( 1975 ). A statistical analysis of income inequality based on a decomposition of the Gini index. In: International Statistical Institute. Proceedings of the 40th ISI Session. Warsaw .
   Google Scholar
• Podder , N. ( 1993 ). A new method of disaggregating the Gini index by groups . Sankhya B 55 : 262 – 271 .
   Google Scholar
• Podder , N. ( 1997 ). A method of analyzing subgroup poverty using a new decomposition of the Gini coefficient . Statistica 57 : 21 – 30 .
   Google Scholar
• Pyatt , G. ( 1976 ). On the interpretation and disaggregation of Gini coefficient . Economic Journal 86 : 243 – 255 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rao , V. M. ( 1968 ). Two decompositions of concentration ratio . Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A 132 : 418 – 425 .
   Google Scholar
• Schechtman , E. , Yitzhaki , S. ( 1987 ). A measure of association based on Gini's mean difference . Communications in Statistics 16 : 207 – 231 .
   Google Scholar
• Schechtman , E. , Yitzhaki , S. ( 1999 ). On the proper bounds of the Gini correlation . Economics Letters 63 : 133 – 138 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shorrocks , A. F. (1980). The class of additively decomposable inequality measures. Econometrica 48:613–625.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Yao , S. ( 1997 ). Decomposition of Gini coefficients by income factors: a new approach and application . Applied Economics Letters 4 : 27 – 31 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Yitzhaki , S. ( 1994 ). Economic distance and overlapping distributions . Journal of Econometrics 61 : 147 – 159 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Yitzhaki , S. ( 2002 ). Do we need a separate poverty measurement? European Journal of Political Economy 18 : 61 – 85 .
   Google Scholar
• Yitzhaki , S. , Lerman , R. ( 1991 ). Income stratification and income inequality . Review of Income and Wealth 37 : 313 – 329 .
   Google Scholar