Palacios-González, Federico; García-Fernández, Rosa … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
In this paper, taking as starting point the link between polarization and dispersion, we reformulate the measure of polarization of Zhang and Kanbur (2001) using the decomposition of the variance instead of the decomposition of the Theil index. The proposed measure is equivalent to the...