Entropy-based China income distributions and inequality measures

We use information theoretic information recovery methods, on a 2005 sample of household income data from the Chinese InterCensus, to estimate the income distribution for China and each of its 31 provinces and to obtain corresponding measures of income inequality. Using entropy divergence methods, w...

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Main Authors: Fu, Q. (Author), Judge, G. (Author), Villas-Boas, S.B (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Routledge 2019
Subjects:
C1
C10
C24
D31
E21
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