Inequality, welfare and poverty : theory and measurement /

Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 9, Inequality, Welfare and Poverty: Theory and Measurement continues the series of original, timely and useful papers in applied welfare analysis. This volume contains fifteen papers on inequality theory, economic mobility, issues in empirical estimation, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Amiel, Yoram, Bishop, John A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : JAI, 2003.
Colección:Research on economic inequality ; v. 9.
Temas:
Equality.
Poverty.
Welfare economics.
Poverty
Pauvreté.
Économie du bien-être.
poverty.
Poverty & unemployment.
Social theory.
Business & Economics > Management.
Gestion d'entreprises.
Equality
Welfare economics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The measurement of the inequality of opportunities / Javier Ruiz-Castillo
  • Economic growth, welfare and the measurement of social mobility / John P. Formby, W. James Smith, Buhong Zheng
  • Mobility comparisons : does using different measures matter? / Daniele Checchi, Valentino Dardanoni
  • Estimating welfare indices: Household weights and sample design / Frank A. Cowell, Stephen P. Jenkins
  • Weighting with individuals, equivalent individuals or not weighting at all. Does it matter empirically? / Andrâe Decoster, Erwin Ooghe
  • Personal assessments of minimum income and expenses : what do they tell us about minimum living thresholds and equivalence scales? / Thesia I. Garner, Kathleen S. Short
  • A generalised social welfare function and its disaggregation by components of income : the method and applications / Pundarik Mukhopadhaya
  • Equity, efficiency and social welfare: an application of generalised Lorenz Dominance to New Zealand incomes data 19841998 / Srikanta Chatterjee, Nripesh Podder, Pundarik Mukhopadhaya
  • U.S. income inequality trends and recent immigration / Robert I. Lerman
  • Urban poverty in developed countries / Andrea Brandolini, Piero Cipollone
  • Regional poverty within the rich countries / David Jesuit, Lee Rainwater, Timothy Smeeding
  • Inequality, welfare and monotonicity / Yoram Amiel, Frank A. Cowell
  • Inequality measurement for homogeneous groups / Udo Ebert
  • Extended bi-polarization and inequality measures / Juan G. Rodrâiguez, Rafael Salas
  • International comparisons of income distributions / Stephen Bazen, Patrick Moyes
  • Introduction.

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