Measuring Inequality - DARP

ivCONTENTS5 From Theory to Practice 995.1 The data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005.2 Computation of the inequality measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1085.3 Appraising the calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245.4 Shortcuts: …tting functional forms 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1315.5 Interpreting the answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1385.6 A sort of conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1435.7 Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144A Technical Appendix 149A.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149A.2 Measures and their properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149A.3 Functional forms of distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152A.4 Interrelationships between inequality measures . . . . . . . . . . 160A.5 Decomposition of inequality measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161A.6 Negative incomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166A.7 Estimation problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168A.8 Using the website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174B Notes on Sources and Literature 177B.1 Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177B.2 Chapter 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179B.3 Chapter 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182B.4 Chapter 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186B.5 Chapter 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190B.6 Technical Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1951 This section contains material of a more technical nature which can be omitted withoutloss of continuity.