Beyond inequality: A novel measure of skewness and its properties

dc.contributor.author	Krämer, Walter
dc.contributor.author	Dette, Holger
dc.date.accessioned	2016-06-13T09:22:31Z
dc.date.available	2016-06-13T09:22:31Z
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.description.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.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2003/35087
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-17135
dc.language.iso	en	de
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Discussion Paper / SFB823;29, 2016	en
dc.subject	inequality	en
dc.subject	skewness	en
dc.subject	Gini-index	en
dc.subject.ddc	310
dc.subject.ddc	330
dc.subject.ddc	620
dc.subject.rswk	Asymmetrie	de
dc.subject.rswk	Gini-Koeffizient	de
dc.title	Beyond inequality: A novel measure of skewness and its properties	en
dc.type	Text	de
dc.type.publicationtype	workingPaper	de
dcterms.accessRights	open access

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