A bottom poor sensitive Gini coefficient and maximum entropy estimation of income distributions

Autor: Hang Keun Ryu
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Economics Letters. 118:370-374
ISSN: 0165-1765
Popis: A bottom poor sensitive Gini coefficient (pgini) is defined by replacing income observations with their reciprocal values in the Gini coefficient. The underlying true income share function can be derived approximately using the maximum entropy method given the pgini coefficient.
Databáze: OpenAIRE