caa a22 4500 467889422 CHVBK 20180406152744.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10888-005-9013-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10888-005-9013-5 Kanbur Ravi Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA aut The policy significance of inequality decompositions [Elektronische Daten] [Ravi Kanbur] Economists are now familiar with ‘between' and ‘within' group inequality decompositions, for race, gender, spatial units, etc. But what exactly is the normative significance of the empirical results produced by these decompositions? This paper raises some basic questions about policy interpretations of decompositions that are found in the literature. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 groups nationallicence identity nationallicence inequality decomposition nationallicence policy nationallicence The Journal of Economic Inequality Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 4/3(2006-12-01), 367-374 1569-1721 4:3<367 2006 4 10888 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-005-9013-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-005-9013-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kanbur Ravi Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic Inequality Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 4/3(2006-12-01), 367-374 1569-1721 4:3<367 2006 4 10888 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer