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Rao, U.L.G. and Tam, A.Y.-P. (1987) An Empirical Study of Selection and Estimation of Alternative Models of the Lorenz Curve. Journal of Applied Statistics, 14, 275-280.
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• TITLE: Income Inequality Measures

  AUTHORS: Johan Fellman

  KEYWORDS: Lorenz Curve, Gini Index, Pietra Index, Pareto Distribution, Simplified Rao-Tam Distribution, Chotikapanich Distribution

  JOURNAL NAME: Theoretical Economics Letters, Vol.8 No.3, February 14, 2018

  ABSTRACT: Income distributions are commonly unimodal and skew with a heavy right tail. Different skew models, such as the lognormal and the Pareto, have been proposed as suitable descriptions of income distribution and applied in specific empirical situations. More wide-ranging tools have been introduced as measures for general comparisons. In this study, we review the income analysis methods and apply them to specific Lorenz models.