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A note on a property of the Gini coefficient

Marian Genèev
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The scope of this note is a self-contained presentation of a mathematical method that enables us to give an absolute upper bound for the difference of the Gini coefficients |G(σ1, . . ., σn) − G(γ1, . . . , γn)| , where (γ1, . . . , γn) represents the vector of the gross wages and (σ1, . . . , σn) represents the vector of the corresponding super-gross wages that is used in the Czech Republic for calculating the net wage. Since (as of June 2019) σi = 100 ⎡ 1.34 γi /100⎤, the study of the above difference seems to be somewhat inaccessible for many economists. However, our estimate based on the presented technique implies that the introduction of the super-gross wage concept does not essentially affect the value of the Gini coefficient as sometimes expected.
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Marian Genèev. A note on a property of the Gini coefficient. Communications in Mathematics, 2019, Volume 27 (2019), Issue 2 (2), pp.81 - 88. ⟨10.2478/cm-2019-0008⟩. ⟨hal-03664973⟩
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