Revisiting Between-Group Inequality Measurement: An Application to the Dynamics of Caste Inequality in Two Indian Villages

Revisiting Between-Group Inequality Measurement: An Application to the Dynamics of Caste Inequality in Two Indian Villages

Standard approaches to decomposing how much group differences contribute to inequality rarely show significant between-group inequality, and are of limited use in comparing populations with different numbers of groups. We apply an adaptation to the standard approach that remedies these problems to l...

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Main Authors: Lanjouw, Peter, Rao, Vijayendra
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions D310
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement D630
Economics of Minorities and Races
Non-labor Discrimination J150
Economic Development: Human Resources
Human Development
Income Distribution
Migration O150
Formal and Informal Sectors
Shadow Economy
Institutional Arrangements O170
Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses
Transportation O180
Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics: Regional Migration
Regional Labor Markets
Population
Neighborhood Characteristics R230
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4663

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