Abstract
Many inequality measures have the property that for any income distribution there exists a benchmark income, above which adding incremental income increases inequality, and below which it decreases inequality. This note provides social preference conditions which guarantee the existence of such a benchmark income. The key condition is a strong version of the Pigou–Dalton transfer principle. The results imply that benchmark incomes exist for virtually all known inequality measures.
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