RT journal article
T1 On a property of Lorenz curves with monotone elasticity and its application to the study of inequality by using tax data
A1 Sordo Díaz, Miguel Ángel
A1 Berihuete Macías, Ángel
A1 Ramos Romero, Héctor
A1 Ramos González, Carmen Dolores
A2 Estadística e Investigación Operativa
K1 Lorenz curve
K1 tax data
K1 truncation
K1 inequality
AB The Lorenz curve is the most widely used graphical tool for describing and comparing inequality of income distributions. In this paper, we show that the elasticity of this curve is an indicator of the effect, in terms of inequality, of a truncation of the income distribution. As an application, we consider tax returns as equivalent to the truncation from below of a hypothetical income distribution. Then, we replace this hypothetical distribution by the income distribution obtained from a general household survey and use the dual Lorenz curve to anticipate this effect.
PB Institut d’Estadística de Catalunya
SN 1696-2281
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/37461
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/37461
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 21-sep-2026