As is well known, the use of the Gini coefficient in comparisons is inconsistent with an utilitarian approach. This paper analyzes the Gini coefficient's normative significance in welfare comparisons evaluating income distributions according to Yaari dual social welfare function. When...

Segregation analysis is concerned with the way in which mutually exclusive groups, gathering individuals sharing similar characteristics (such as their ethnic, linguistic or parental background) are dissimilarly distributed across non-overlapping organizational units (such as neighborhoods of a...