The Class of Additively Decomposable Inequality Measures

By Anthony Shorrocks. 1980

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Income Inequality in Rural China: Regression-based Decomposition Using Household Data (2005, unknown): “Thus, the Shapley value framework of Shorrocks (1999) must be adopted in a regression-based decomposition context.”
Entropy-Based Segregation Indices (2011, background): “This is only the case for one of the members of the entropy family of income inequality indicators: the mean logarithmic deviation (Shorrocks 1980).”
Decomposition procedures for distributional analysis: a unified framework based on the Shapley value (2013, methodology): “We first consider the question of decomposing inequality by subgroups, a topic pioneered by Theil (1972) and later developed by Bourguignon (1979), Shorrocks (1980, 1984), and Foster and Shneyerov (1996, 1997), amongst others.”
A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality: Theory and Practice (2013, background): “Shorrocks and Foster (1987) have reinterpreted the transfer sensitivity property in terms of favorable composite transfer (FACT).”
THE DISTURBING "RISE" OF GLOBAL INCOME INEQUALITY (2002, unknown): “Buourguignon (1979), Shorrocks (1980) and Cowell (1995) show that the only inequality indexes that simultaneously satisfy all the above principles are the Generalized Entropy Indexes, : where is a constant parameter.”
Equality of Opportunity (1998, background): “See Shorrocks (1980) for a characterization of all inequality indices that can be decomposed in the sense of (4.8).”
Beyond Oaxaca–Blinder: Accounting for differences in household income distributions (2008, unknown): “For each counterfactual distribution, it is possible to decompose the observed difference in the income distributions for countries A and B as follows: f B yð Þ f A yð Þ ¼ f s yð Þ f A yð Þ þ f B yð Þ f s yð Þ ð2Þ 20 Shorrocks (Decomposition Procedures for Distributional Analysis: A Unified Framewor”
Wage inequality and poverty effects of lockdown and social distancing in Europe (2020, unknown): “It is equivalent to the rate of change in the Watts index of poverty ( Watts, 1968 ) normalized by the headcount index.”
The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) Poverty Measures: Twenty-Five Years Later (2010, methodology): “The origins of this axiom are found in the work of Anand (1977) in poverty and Theil (1967), Bourguignon (1979), Shorrocks (1980), and Cowell (1980) in inequality – although inequality decompositions have an additional between-group term.”
Increasing Inequality in Transition Economies: Is There More to Come? (2006, methodology): “This subsection decomposes consumption inequality in seven representative transition countries into the contribution of inequality ‘between’ groups and inequality ‘within’ groups using the Theil entropy measure of inequality (F. Bourguignon (1979) and A. Shorrocks (1980)).”
FIFTY YEARS OF REGIONAL INEQUALITY IN CHINA: A JOURNEY THROUGH REVOLUTION, REFORM AND OPENNESS (2001, methodology): “But the bulk of our analysis is done with a second inequality index, a member of the decomposable generalized entropy (GE) class of inequality measures as developed by Shorrocks (1980, 1984): I(y)= f y y f y y y f y y i i c i n i i i i n i ii n ( ) ( ) log ( ) log µ µ µ µ −”