RT Journal Article
T1 Majority voting and Gini-based social welfare: testing the hypothesis of symmetry
A1 Rodríguez Hernández, Juan Gabriel
A1 Salas del Mármol, Rafael
AB Majority voting accords with the class of social evaluation functions consistent with the Gini coefficient when income distributions are symmetric under a rank-dependent transformation (Rodríguez and Salas, 2014). Under this assumption, median income and the equally distributed equivalent income are the same, and the Gini coefficient is an affine function of the median–mean ratio. Despite the importance of these findings, the empirical plausibility of the symmetry hypothesis has not been tested yet. In this article, we contrast the symmetry assumption with an empirical exercise based on the Survey on Income and Living Conditions data set for the European Union in the period 2005–2007. We find that the symmetric condition is generally fulfilled.
PB Chapman & Hall
SN 1350-4851
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34227
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34227
LA spa
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 21 abr 2025