The Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 71 No. 1 1989
Factor Components, Population Subgroups and the Computation of the Gini Index of Inequality
Abstract
A simple technique based on matrix algebra is proposed to compute the Gini Index of Inequality; to obtain its decomposition by factor components when detailed data on income sources are available; to derive a breakdown of the inequality into, within, and between classes inequality when the income units are grouped by income range; and to compute the contribution of the within and between groups inequality, as well as that of some interaction term, when the data are classified by population subgroups.
- DOI
- 10.2307/1928057
- Volume
- 71
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 107
- Sources
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