Segregation, informativeness and lorenz dominance

Casilda Lasso de la Vega; Oscar Volij

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Segregation, informativeness and lorenz dominance

Casilda Lasso de la Vega, Oscar Volij

Department of Economics

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It is possible to partially order cities according to the informativeness of neighborhoods about their ethnic groups. It is also possible to partially order cities with two ethnic groups according to the Lorenz criterion. We show that a segregation order satisfies four well-established segregation principles if and only if it is consistent with the informativeness criterion. We then use this result to show that for the two-group case, the Lorenz and the informativeness criteria are equivalent.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	547-564
Number of pages	18
Journal	Social Choice and Welfare
Volume	43
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-014-0801-3
State	Published - 1 Oct 2014

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