Restricted Lorenz dominance of economic inequality in one and many dimensions

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• 作者：Karl Mosler (001)
  
• 关键词：inequality measurement ; lift zonoid order ; Lorenz order ; majorization ; multivariate inequality ordering
• 刊名：The Journal of Economic Inequality
• 出版年：2004
• 出版时间：August 2004
• 年：2004
• 卷：2
• 期：2
• 页码：89-103
• 全文大小：235KB
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• 作者单位：Karl Mosler (001)
  
  001. Seminar f眉r Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistik, Universit盲t zu K枚ln, 50923, K枚ln, Germany
  

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The paper investigates Lorenz dominance and generalized Lorenz dominance to compare distributions of economic status in one and several attributes. Restrictions of these dominance relations are developed that focus on central parts of the distributions and facilitate their comparison.