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On the Measurement of Inequality
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In this paper, the problem of comparing two frequency distributions f(u) of an attribute y which for convenience I shall refer to as income is defined as a risk in the theory of decision-making under uncertainty.About:
This article is published in Journal of Economic Theory.The article was published on 1970-09-01. It has received 5002 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Income inequality metrics & Income distribution.read more
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Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation
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Large sample properties of two inequality indices
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On comparing distributions of poverty gaps
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Two sides to every story: measuring polarization and inequality in the distribution of work
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Tax Incidence, Progressivity, and Inequality in Canada
Jonathan R. Kesselman,Ron Cheung +1 more
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Risk Aversion in the Small and in the Large
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Aspects of the theory of risk-bearing
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The Measurement of the Inequality of Incomes
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The Efficiency Analysis of Choices Involving Risk
Giora Hanoch,Haim Levy +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of the first step of the decision-making process of an individual decision maker among alternative risky ventures is presented, in terms of a single dimension such as money, both for the utility functions and for the probability distributions.