The Gini index of inequality has been extensively studied by economists in a variety of contexts with the notions of wealth and income distribution serving as two primary examples …
H Shalit - Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics, 1985 - search.ebscohost.com
The article presents a simple formula to compute the Gini index for a single variable such as income and also for the various elements that compose it when individual data points are …
E Abounoori, P McCloughan - Applied Economics Letters, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
Numerous methods have been proposed for calculating the Gini coefficient, the most widely used statistical measure of income inequality. The Milanovic (Bulletin of Economic …
R Zitikis, JL Gastwirth - Australian & New Zealand Journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Several generalizations of the classical Gini index, placing smaller or greater weights on various portions of income distribution, have been proposed by a number of authors. For …
R Modarres, JL Gastwirth - Oxford Bulletin of Economics and …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We will show that the regression approach to estimating the standard error of the Gini index can produce incorrect results as it does not account for the correlations introduced in the …
T Ogwang - Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics, 2000 - search.ebscohost.com
The article presents information on a convenient method of computing the Gini Index and its standard error. The Gini index is an important measure of income inequality with widely …
K Xu - Dalhousie University, Economics Working Paper, 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
The Gini coefficient or index is perhaps one of the most used indicators of social and economic conditions. From its first proposal in English in 1921 to the present, a large …
JL Gastwirth - Statistics and Public Policy, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The Gini index is the most commonly used measure of income inequality. Like any single summary measure of a set of data, it cannot capture all aspects that are of interest to …