of the first round, leading to a pattern of societal stratification. Participants are informed individually about points …

In this paper, we apply a multidimensional decomposition of the Gini index to the active and retired populations in …

The paper defines the Gini index as the sum of individual contributions where individual contributions are interpreted … individual contributions to the Gini found in the literature, we show that only one form satisfies a set of desirable properties …. This form can be used for decomposing the Gini into population subgroups. An illustration with UK data shows the use of …

Sen [1976] with the Gini index of poverty gap ratio, that is, a fundamental component of Sen’s poverty index. The problem … is that this Gini index does not offer any information on the determinants of the inequalities. For this purpose, Mussard … [2004] introduced the bidimensional decomposition of the Gini ratio, where both sub-groups and income sources are jointly …