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‘Mingling’ the Gini Index and the Mean Income to Rank Countries by Inequality and Social Welfare

Ivica Urban (Institute of Public Finance Zagreb, Croatia)

Mobility and Inequality Trends

ISBN: 978-1-80382-902-9, eISBN: 978-1-80382-901-2

Publication date: 25 January 2023

Abstract

Various indicators of income inequality and social welfare can be obtained simply by using the Gini index and the mean income of the population. This paper reviews existing indicators and presents several new indicators of this kind. While contemporary researchers seem to be preoccupied with relative inequality, this paper advocates for using intermediate inequality views and supplementing inequality rankings of countries with rankings based on social welfare. Empirical analysis, performed for 36 European countries, demonstrates such an approach’s advantages.

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Acknowledgements

This work has been fully supported by the Croatian Science Foundation under project IP-2019-04-9924. The author wishes to thank Martina Pezer and the anonymous reviewer for their helpful comments.

Citation

Urban, I. (2023), "‘Mingling’ the Gini Index and the Mean Income to Rank Countries by Inequality and Social Welfare", Bandyopadhyay, S. and Rodríguez, J.G. (Ed.) Mobility and Inequality Trends (Research on Economic Inequality, Vol. 30), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 139-163. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1049-258520230000030005

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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