On the Measurement of Inequality
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...are typically much better than surveys at capturing capital income, this varies depending on the extent to which capital income is taxed and hence reported in the tax records (Atkinson et al., 2011, p. 35). Alvaredo and Londoño Vélez’s (2013) study of top incomes in Colombia notes that different definitions of the control income, of which top incomes are expressed as a share, lead to somewhat different estimates....
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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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