INCOME NONRESPONSE AND INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT

This paper analyses the effects that income nonresponse has on certain well-known inequality coefficients (e.g. Gini, Theil and Atkinson indexes). A number of statistical methods have been developed to impute missing values of incomes for nonrespondents. By simulating several patterns of income nonr...

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Main Authors: PARAJE,GUILLERMO, WEEKS,MELVYN
Language:English
Published: ILADES. Universidad Alberto Hurtado. 2010
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-88702010000200008
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