correlation suggests that inequalities in the two factors considered tend to
compensate one another. Nevertheless, this behaviour changes depending on
whether we consider inter-group or intra-group inequality.
Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge support from projects ECO2009-10003 (Ministerio de
Ciencia e Innovacion), 2009SGR-600 and XREPP (DGR).
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