A behaviorally-based approach to measuring inequality

The measurement of inequality is often made using observed population-based distributions, such as the distribution of income or the distribution of members of different groups across neighborhoods. Unfortunately, such distributions confound the behavior of a given year with earlier events that inf...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Claudia Nau, Robert Schoen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2008-09-01
Series:Demographic Research
Online Access:http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol19/49/