Income Inequality Measurement: The Normative Approach

This chapter is about inequality indexes that have an explicit normative interpretation. By this, we mean that there is a relationship between an inequality index and a social-evaluation ordering defined on the incomes — incomes -- nominal or real -- of the members of society.2 Incomes are typically assigned to individuals rather than households by using an adult equivalence scale.

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