Does less inequality among households mean less inequality among individuals?
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Does less inequality among households mean less inequality among individuals?
Consider an income distribution among households of the same size and suppose that the individuals, equally needy from the point of view of an ethical observer, are treated unfairly within each household. We look for conditions under which welfare and inequality quasi-orders are preserved from the household level at the individual one. A necessary and sufficient condition for the Generalized Lo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Economic Theory
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0022-0531
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2005.10.004