Quadratic Pen's Parade and the Computation of the Gini index

Following Milanovic's (1997) paper [Economics Letters, vol. 56, p. 45-49], we propose a simple way to compute the Gini index when income y is a quadratic function of its rank among n individuals.

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Year of publication:	2010-06-09
Authors:	Mussard, Stéphane ; Kamdem, Jules Sadefo ; Seyte, Françoise ; Terraza, Michel
Institutions:	Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration
Subject:	Gini \| Income inequality \| Quadratic parade \| Ranks

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Cahiers de recherche.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	7 pages
Classification:	D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; C15 - Statistical Simulation Methods; Monte Carlo Methods
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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