Extensions of a Measure of Polarization with an Application to the Income Distribution of Five OECD Countries

We introduce an extension of the Esteban and Ray [Econometrica, 1994] measure of polarization that can be applied to density functions. As a by-product we also derive the Wolfson [AER, 1994] measure as a special case. This derivation has the virtue of casting both measures in the context of a (statistically) unified framework. We study the polarization of the distribution of household income for five OECD countries (LIS database): US, UK, Canada, Germany and Sweden.

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Year of publication:	1999
Authors:	Esteban, Joan ; Gradín, Carlos ; Ray, Debraj
Publisher:	Luxembourg : Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
Subject:	Einkommensverteilung \| Disparitätsmaß \| OECD-Staaten \| USA \| Großbritannien \| Kanada \| Deutschland \| Schweden

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Series:	LIS Working Paper Series ; 218
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/160890 [Handle] RePEc:lis:liswps:218 [RePEc]
Source:	EconStor

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