On the Measurement of Inequality
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...For given income levels yk, k = 1, ..., K , for each individual, social welfare is written as (see e.g. Atkinson, 1970; Deaton, 1997; Slesnick, 1998) W = 1 K K ∑ k=1 y1−ρk 1 − ρ (14) with ρ > 0 an indicator controlling for the degree of inequality aversion in which ρ = 0 yields a utilitarian social…...
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...This combines the BGE concept with a measure of inequality very much like Atkinson‟s (1970) ....
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...3 See Rothschild and Stiglitz [13], Hadar and Russell [ 5 ], and Hanoch and Levy [6]....
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...Then by applying the results of Pratt [l 11, Arrow [ 2 ], and others, we can see that this requirement (which may be referred to as constant (relative) inequality-aversion) implies that U(y) has the form...
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