Beyond inequality: A novel measure of skewness and its properties
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2016
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Abstract
We show that a recent appendix to the Gini-coeffcient to make
the latter more sensitive to asymmetric income distributions can be
viewed as an abstract measure of skewness. We develop some of its
properties and apply it to the US-income distribution in 1974 and
2010.
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inequality, skewness, Gini-index