A new approach to the measurement of polarization for grouped data

• Main Authors: BOMSDORF, Eckart, OTTO, Clemens A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• Subjects: Income polarization; Income distribution; Finance and Financial Management; Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5376; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6375/viewcontent/101007_2Fs10182_007_0027_0.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper we develop a measure of polarization for discrete distributions of non-negative grouped data. The measure takes into account the relative sizes and homogeneities of individual groups as well as the heterogeneities between all pairs of groups. It is based on the assumption that the tota...