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Erschienen in: Social Choice and Welfare 1/2022

04.07.2021 | Original Paper

Revisiting comparisons of income inequality when Lorenz curves intersect

verfasst von: James Davies, Michael Hoy, Lin Zhao

Erschienen in: Social Choice and Welfare | Ausgabe 1/2022

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Abstract

The main contribution of Davies and Hoy (Am Econ Rev 85:980–986, 1995) was a “necessary and sufficient” condition for comparing inequality between income distributions according to the principle of transfer sensitivity (PTS). Chiu (Soc Choice Welf 28:375–399, 2007) showed that although the condition is sufficient, it is not necessary. In this paper, we provide the correct necessary and sufficient condition, and demonstrate with a simple example how the corrected condition allows for more pairs of distributions to be ranked by PTS. The correction clarifies the connection between Lorenz curve comparisons and inequality rankings when the curves intersect.
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1
In the favourable composite transfer defined by Shorrocks and Foster (1987), the progressive transfer occurs in a lower range of incomes than does the regressive transfer, although the two transfers may occur over intersecting income ranges. See Davies and Hoy (1995) for a discussion of the normative appeal of placing greater emphasis on inequality that occurs for relatively lower incomes within the distribution.
 
2
In the literature, Proposition 2 of Davies and Hoy (1995) is usually cited as an equivalence between PTS and the comparison of variances for appropriately truncated subpopulations of a pair of income distributions. See, for example, Davies and Shorrocks (2000) and Cowell (2011) for citations in monographs, and Aaberge (2009), Gajdos and Weymark (2012) and Ibragimov et al. (2018) for citations in other publications.
 
3
This is clear upon comparing his Lemma 2 and Footnote 11 with our Proposition 1 here.
 
4
Theorem 5.2.3 in Athreya and Lahiri (2006, p.155) states integration by parts under mild conditions. Since cumulative distribution functions are always nondecreasing right-continuous and the quadratic function in our derivations never has any point of discontinuity, it follows as a corollary of Theorem 5.2.3 that in our situation, integration by parts is workable for general distributions including discontinuities.
 
5
It can be shown that \(z_i^*\) is also the unique zero root of S(y) on \([G^{-1}(P_i),F^{-1}(P_i)]\). Indeed, applying integration by parts to (2) yields \(P_iG^{-1}(P_i)+\int _{(G^{-1}(P_i),z_i^*]}G(y)dy=P_iF^{-1}(P_i)-\int _{(z_i^*,F^{-1}(P_i)]}F(y)dy\), and to \(\int _{[\underline{y},G^{-1}(P_i)]}ydG(y)=\int _{[\underline{y},F^{-1}(P_i)]}ydF(y)\) yields \(\int _{[\underline{y},G^{-1}(P_i)]}G(y)dy-P_iG^{-1}(P_i)=\int _{[\underline{y},F^{-1}(P_i)]}F(y)dy-P_iF^{-1}(P_i)\). Summing up the two equations results in \(S(z_i^*)=0\).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Revisiting comparisons of income inequality when Lorenz curves intersect
verfasst von
James Davies
Michael Hoy
Lin Zhao
Publikationsdatum
04.07.2021
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Social Choice and Welfare / Ausgabe 1/2022
Print ISSN: 0176-1714
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-217X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-021-01343-w

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