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Inequality and Poverty II : Papers from the Second Ecineq Society Meeting.

Contains a selection of thirteen papers from the Second Biannual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Berlin, July, 27. This work covers topics including welfare analysis with ordinal data, unit consistency and multidimensional ine.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bishop, John A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bradford : Emerald Group Pub., 2008.
Colección:Research on Economic Inequality, 16.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Inequality and Opportunity: Papers from The Second Ecineq Society Meeting; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Equal liberties and the resulting optimum income distribution and taxation; Inequality and envy; Interdependent preferences in the design of equal-opportunity policies; Higher education and equality of opportunity in Italy; Inequality of opportunity for income in five countries of Africa; Equalizing income versus equalizing opportunity:a comparison of the United States and Germany.
  • Intergenerational income inequality and dynastic poverty persistence: Germany and the United States comparedMeasuring inequality with ordinal data: a note; Multidimensional unit- and subgroup-consistent inequality and poverty measures: some characterizations; Rankings of income distributions: a note on intermediate inequality indices; The Bonferroni, Gini, and De Vergottini indices. Inequality, welfare, and deprivation in the European union in 2000; On various ways of measuring unemploy.