Handbook of Income Inequality Measurement

. Ed(s): Silber, Jacques

ISBN 10: 0792385748 / ISBN 13: 9780792385745

Editore: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999

Offering an overview of the main questions that have to be addressed explicitly or implicitly when making income inequality comparisons, this volume offers a historical survey of the link between the personal and functional distributions of incomes. It also reviews specific issues in and applications of income inequality analysis. Editor(s): Silber, Jacques. Series: Recent Economic Thought. Num Pages: 680 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCA; KCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1127. . 1999. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Codice articolo V9780792385745

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This text emphasizes the theoretical foundations of income inequality analysis and its extensions and applications. Following a thorough overview of the main questions that have to be addressed explicitly or implicitly when making income inequality comparisons, the volume offers a historical survey of the link between the personal and functional distributions of incomes The next chapters are devoted to a presentation of the theoretical basis of income inequality analysis and give an illuminating account of the normative, axiomatic and subjective approaches to this area and of its connections to the literature on stochastic dominance. Four studies then look at the statistical tools to be employed when assessing or ranking inequalities, whether the goal is to estimate inequality indices, derive parametric approximations to Lorenz curves or test the significance of the partial orderings that reflect Lorenz comparisons. The last nine chapters review specific issues in, and applications of, income inequality analysis.

Contenuti: Foreword; A. Sen. Introduction: Thirty Years of Intensive Research on Income Inequality; J. Silber. Acknowledgment. 1. The Rational Foundations of Income Inequality Measurement; S.-C. Kolm. 2. Linking the Functional and Personal Distributions of Income; C. Dagum. 3. Income Inequality Measurement: The Normative Approach; C. Blackorby, et al. 4. Measuring Inequality: The Axiomatic Approach; S.R. Chakravarty. 5. The Mathematical Foundations of Inequality Analysis; M. Le Breton. 6. Stochastic Dominance and the Lorenz Curve; P. Moyes. 7. The Measurement of Income Inequality: The Subjective Approach; Y. Amiel. 8. Income Inequality Measurement: The Statistical Approach; G.M. Giorgi. 9. Estimation of Inequality Indices; F.A. Cowell. 10. Parametric Approximations of the Lorenz Curve; H.K. Ryu, D.J. Slottje. 11. Tests of Significance for Lorenz Partial Orders; J.A. Bishop, J.P. Formby. 12. How Do Income Sources Affect Income Inequality? R.I. Lerman. 13. Inequality Decomposition by Population Subgroups and the Analysis of Interdistributional Inequality; J. Deutsch, J. Silber. 14. Equivalence Scales and Inequality; F.A. Cowell, M. Mercader-Prats. 15. Multidimensioned Approaches to Welfare Analysis; E. Maasoumi. 16. Redistributional Effect of Progressive Income Taxes; P.J. Lambert. 17. Lifetime versus Annual Income Distribution; J. Creedy. 18. Horizontal Inequity Measurement: A Basic Reassessment; S.P. Jenkins, P.J. Lambert.19. The Measurement of Income Mobility: An Introduction to the Literature; G.S. Fields, E.A. Ok. 20. Inequality, Welfare and Poverty: Three Interrelated Phenomena; N. Kakwani. Epilogue: Reflections on Income Inequality Measurement; A.B. Atkinson.

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Titolo: Handbook of Income Inequality Measurement
Casa editrice: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Data di pubblicazione: 1999
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: New