Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Robin Hahnel wrote:
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> >Ginis among men, and ginis among women -- yes. But that just tells us if
> >something -- wages, income, wealth, whatever -- is more or less unequal
> >among men or women. What would a gini between men and women mean?
> >Nothing I think.
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> I meant the former, gini by sex. Ginis between m&f we have already, no?
No, we don't have what I think you are imagining. There is no such thing
as a gini between m&f. gini's are measures of inequality among a large
group of people -- or a measure of overall inequality in a large
population of some sort. We have differences in mean earnings for all
men and all women, and we can talk about the statistical significance of
those differences. But that is a ratio of one average to another
average.
Comparing a gini for income among all males with the gini for incomes
among all females would tell you whether there is more inequality of
income among males or females -- which might be of some interest for
some reason, but I doubt that was what you were interested in.
