Distributional divergence as a unifying measurement framework

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12837111
AutoresCasilda Lasso de la Vega (0000-0002-4326-0457, University of the Basque Country, autor de correspondencia), Juan Gabriel Rodríguez (0000-0002-0256-8789, Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Rafael Salas (0000-0001-5313-4801, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Año2025
Fecha de publicación2025-05-14
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Economic Inequality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1569-1721 • E-ISSN: 1573-8701
EditorialSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s10888-025-09677-6
OpenAlexW4410370134
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas28

The measurement of various economic phenomena, including income inequality, poverty, richness, inequality-of-opportunity, horizontal equity, mobility, wage discrimination and goodness of fit, are examples of the measurement of the divergence between distributions. In all these examples there is a reference distribution and the aim is to examine to what extent any given distribution differs from the reference one. By providing an axiomatic characterization of a family of indices for measuring divergence between distributions, this paper provides a unifying framework for incorporating the measurement of many economic phenomena, while exploring the relationship of the derived family of indices to other existing measures

Divergence (linguistics · Geography · Linguistics · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Philosophy