More than a century ago, Corrado Gini proposed his well‐known concentration index for
measuring the degree of inequality in the distribution of income and wealth. His index is still …

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 …

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 …

Inequality Decomposition by Income Source: A Note Page 1 NOTES 545 APPENDIX TABLE
A-1.-TRANSLOG FRONTIER COST FUNCTIONS DEPENDENT VARIABLE: NATURAL LOG …

Numerous methods have been proposed for calculating the Gini coefficient, the most widely
used statistical measure of income inequality. The Milanovic (Bulletin of Economic …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …