RELATIVE INEQUALITY, ABSOLUTE INEQUALITY, AND WELFARE: LARGE SAMPLE TESTS FOR PARTIAL ORDERS
作者:
John A. Bishop,
S. Chakraborti,
Paul D. Thistle,
期刊:
Bulletin of Economic Research
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 46,
issue 1
页码: 41-59
ISSN:0307-3378
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8586.1994.tb00577.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ARSTRACTTwo general welfare criteria, mean‐relative Lorenz and mean‐absolute Lorenz dominance, induce partial orders on income distributions. We propose asymptotically distribution‐free inference procedures, based on the union‐intersection principle, for these two welfare criteria. Unlike classical tests, our procedures allow one to distinguish among dominance, equality, and noncomparability. We show that union‐intersection tests must be used to test for partial orders, and that the statistical ordering is acyclic. The tests are applied to compare the UK distribution of real family income to five other
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