Abstract
This paper notes that Gini's concept of 'Transvariazione' corresponds to the idea of overlapping of distributions. It shows that this concept is implicit in smome measures of income inequality such as the Pietra and Gini Index and is at the basis of various measures of distance between distributions. An empirical illustration is provided, based on Israeli data for the period 1978-1994.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 547-554 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Empirical Economics |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - 1997 |
