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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Economics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Economics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Экономика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2329</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-8986</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">27615</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2329-2021-29-3-595-605</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL TRENDS</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЕ И СОЦИАЛЬНЫЕ ТРЕНДЫ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Group averaging and the Gini deviation</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Усреднение по группам и изменение коэффициента Джини</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Pavlov</surname><given-names>Oleg I.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Павлов</surname><given-names>Олег Иванович</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD, Associate Professor of Economic and Mathematic Modelling Department, Economic Faculty</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат физико-математических наук, доцент кафедры экономико-математического моделирования, экономический факультет</p></bio><email>pavlov-oi@rudn.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Pavlova</surname><given-names>Olga Yu.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Павлова</surname><given-names>Ольга Юрьевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD, Associate Professor at the Department of Higher Mathematics</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат физико-математических наук, доцент кафедры высшей математики</p></bio><email>lolgau@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Российский университет дружбы народов</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">All-Russian Correspondence Multidisciplinary School</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Всероссийская заочная многопредметная школа</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2021-10-05" publication-format="electronic"><day>05</day><month>10</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>29</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">New trends, strategies and structural changes in emerging markets</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Новые тренды, стратегии и структурные изменения в экономике стран с развивающимися рынками</issue-title><fpage>595</fpage><lpage>605</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2021-10-05"><day>05</day><month>10</month><year>2021</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2021, Pavlov O.I., Pavlova O.Y.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2021, Павлов О.И., Павлова О.Ю.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Pavlov O.I., Pavlova O.Y.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Павлов О.И., Павлова О.Ю.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/economics/article/view/27615">https://journals.rudn.ru/economics/article/view/27615</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">It is known that partitioning a society into groups with subsequent averaging in each group decreases the Gini coefficient. The resulting Lorenz function is piecewise linear. This study deals with a natural question: by how much the Gini coefficient could decrease when passing to a piecewise linear Lorenz function? Obtained results are quite illustrative (since they are expressed in terms of the geometric parameters of the polygon Lorenz curve, such as the lengths of its segments and the angles between successive segments) upper bound estimates for the maximum possible change in the Gini coefficient with a restriction on the group shares, or on the difference between the averaged values of the attribute for consecutive groups. It is shown that there exist Lorenz curves with the Gini coefficient arbitrarily close to one, and at the same time with the Gini coefficient of the averaged society arbitrarily close to zero.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Известно, что разбиение общества на группы с последующим усреднением в каждой группе приводит к уменьшению коэффициента Джини. Изучается вопрос, насколько может уменьшиться коэффициент Джини при переходе к данной кусочно-линейной функции Лоренца. Получены весьма наглядные (так как они выражены через геометрические параметры графика кусочно-линейной функции Лоренца, такие как длины ее звеньев и углы между последовательными звеньями) оценки сверху на максимально возможное изменение коэффициента Джини при ограничении на величину доли групп либо на величину разности между усредненными значениями признака по данной группе и по предшествующей группе. Показано, что существуют кривые Лоренца с коэффициентом Джини, сколь угодно близким к единице, и при этом с коэффициентом Джини усредненного общества, сколь угодно близким к нулю.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Gini coefficient</kwd><kwd>Lorenz curve</kwd><kwd>Gini deviation</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>коэффициент Джини</kwd><kwd>кривая Лоренца</kwd><kwd>отклонение коэффициента Джини</kwd><kwd>кусочно-линейная функция</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Arnold, B.C. (2007). The Lorenz curve: Evergreen after 100 years. In S. Betti, A. Lemmi (Eds.), Advances in Income Inequality Concentration Measures (pp. 12-24). New York: Routledge.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Astashenko, A.N., &amp; Malykhin, V.I. (2012). Income inequality measures. 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