Handbook Of Income Inequality Measurement

Author : Jacques Silber
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401144131

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Handbook of Income Inequality Measurement by Jacques Silber Pdf

Amartya Sen "Equality," I spoke the word As if a wedding vow Ah, but I was so much older then, I am younger than that now. Thus sang Bob Dylan in 1964. Approbation of equality varies not only with our age (though it is not absolutely clear in which direction the values may shift over one's life time), but also with the spirit of the times. The 1960s were good years for singing in praise of equality. The spirit of the present times would probably be better reflected by melodies in admiration of the Federal Reserve System. And yet the technical literature on the evaluation and measurement of economic inequality has grown remarkably over the last three decades. Even as actual economic policies (especially in North America and Europe) have tended to move towards focusing on virtues other than the avoidance of economic inequality, the professional literature on assessing and gauging economic inequality has taken quite a jump forward. A great many different problems have been addressed and effectively sorted out, and new problems continue to be posed and analyzed. The Contents: A Review Jacques Silber has done a great service to the subject by producing this collection of admirablyhelpful and illuminating papers on different aspects of the measurement of income inequality. The reach of this collection is quite remarkable. Along with a thorough overview from the editor himself, the major areas in this complex field have been carefully examined and accessibly discussed.

Author : Anthony Barnes Atkinson,François Bourguignon
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Economics
ISBN : 0444816313

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Handbook of Income Distribution by Anthony Barnes Atkinson,François Bourguignon Pdf

Author : Wiemer Salverda,Brian Nolan,Timothy M. Smeeding
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 759 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199231379

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The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality by Wiemer Salverda,Brian Nolan,Timothy M. Smeeding Pdf

Comprehensive analysis of economic inequality in developed countries. The contributors give their view on the state-of-the-art scientific research in their fields and add their own visions of future research.

Author : Philip B. Coulter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429693724

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Measuring Inequality by Philip B. Coulter Pdf

The impetus to write this book grew out of curiosity and frustration. For a research project in which I was involved, I wanted to select an appropriate index to measure inequality, so I searched for a book that comprehensively reviewed the available indexes, identified their operational similarities and differences, and clarified their theoretical undetpinnings. Discovering that no such book existed, I became increasingly frustrated and curious. It became evident that I would have to undertake my own systematic review of the literature, presumably in my own discipline, in order to identify the alternative measures and choose an appropriate one on the basis of proper theoretical and methodological criteria. This effort led to additional frustrating discoveries. First, I encountered a bewildering abundance of inequality indexeswell over ftfty distinguishable measures. Second, my review of the methodological literature on inequality measurement took me through the issues of literally scores of professional journals in five academic disciplines-economics, geography, political science, sociology, and statistics. Third, although I found some cross-disciplinary referencing of inequality measures, by and large each discipline's inequality measurement remained insulated from that of other disciplines.

Author : Anthony Barnes Atkinson,François Bourguignon
Publisher : North-Holland
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0444594299

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Handbook of Income Distribution by Anthony Barnes Atkinson,François Bourguignon Pdf

What new theories, evidence, explanations, and policies have shaped our studies of income distribution in the 21st century? Editors Tony Atkinson and Francois Bourguignon assemble the expertise of leading authorities in this survey of substantive issues. In two volumes they address subjects that were not covered in Volume 1 (2000), such as education, health and experimental economics; and subjects that were covered but where there have been substantial new developments, such as the historical study of income inequality and globalization. Some chapters discuss future growth areas, such as inheritance, the links between inequality and macro-economics and finance, and the distributional implications of climate change. They also update empirical advances and major changes in the policy environment. The volumes define and organize key areas of income distribution studies Contributors focus on identifying newly developing questions and opportunities for future research The authoritative articles emphasize the ways that income mobility and inequality studies have recently gained greater political significance

Author : Daniel J. Slottje
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483296401

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The Structure of Earnings and the Measurement of Income Inequality in the U.S by Daniel J. Slottje Pdf

The various issues involved in measuring income inequality in the U.S. are analyzed in this book. In describing the level of inequality inherent in a particular graduation it is important which income recipient and which data set is used and also the measure of income inequality used as the appropriate summary statistic. Recent trends in labor markets are examined and the book attempts to trace the impact of these trends on the distribution of income for various age, race and occupational cohorts, and across states. Some new methods for analyzing inequality in a multidimensional framework are also discussed. This book provides one of the most comprehensive treatments of income inequality available to date.

Author : Frank Cowell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199594030

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Measuring Inequality by Frank Cowell Pdf

This book deals with the theoretical and practical problems involved in measuring the extent of inequality. The book covers modern theoretical developments in inequality analysis, and shows how the way we think about inequality has been shaped by classic contributions in economics and related disciplines.

Author : D. G. Champernowne,F. A. Cowell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521589592

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Economic Inequality and Income Distribution by D. G. Champernowne,F. A. Cowell Pdf

Economic inequality has become a focus of prime interest for economic analysts and policy makers. This book provides an integrated approach to the topics of inequality and personal income distribution. It covers the practical and theoretical bases for inequality analysis, applications to real world problems and the foundations of theoretical approaches to income distribution. It also analyses models of the distribution of labour earnings and of income from wealth. The long-run development of income - and wealth - distribution over many generations is also examined. Special attention is given to an assessment of the merits and weaknesses of standard economic models, to illustrating the implications of distributional mechanisms using real data and illustrative examples, and to providing graphical interpretation of formal arguments. Examples are drawn from US, UK and international sources.

Author : Udaya R. Wagle
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800882300

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Research Handbook on Poverty and Inequality by Udaya R. Wagle Pdf

Covering global, comparative, and single-country contexts, this Research Handbook presents wide-ranging, cutting-edge research on poverty and inequality. It maps out international trends in poverty and inequality and explores the key conceptual and operational frameworks, practical analyses, and policy applications and outcomes.

Author : Fredrik Nygård,Arne Sandström
Publisher : Almqvist & Wiksell International
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037438665

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Measuring Income Inequality by Fredrik Nygård,Arne Sandström Pdf

Author : Camilo Dagum,Michele Zenga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1990-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3642842518

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Income and Wealth Distribution, Inequality and Poverty by Camilo Dagum,Michele Zenga Pdf

This book deals with the following issues: the analysis, estimation and assessment of alternatived models of income distribution, the specification and evaluation of income inequality measures the analysis and measurement of poverty and its rationale, the scope and methodological power of the social accounting matrix (SAM) in the analysis of the functional and personal distribution of income and the family income multiplier, the study of the source and reliability of income distribution data, the decomposition of income inequality measures, the asymptotic distributions and inferential analysis of income inequalities, and an inquiry on the income distribution and income inequality of Eastern European Countries under socialism. New models on income and wealth distribution are specified and their corresponding properties and goodness of fit are discussed. A multivariate approach to the measurement of poverty is developed and applied, and a compact survey of the literature is presented. The book can be used as a text in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses dealing with the theory, model specifications, methods and applications of income and wealth distribution, income inequality and poverty assessment in measurement and the use of SAMs in the analysis of income distribution.

Author : Nanak Kakwani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198852841

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Economic Inequality and Poverty by Nanak Kakwani Pdf

Issues concerning economic inequality and poverty have become increasingly central to public debate over the past fifty years. The literature on measuring economic inequality and poverty has vastly expanded, developing many new methods, but also has generated many controversies. Economic Inequality and Poverty provides a systematic treatment of the development of inequality and poverty, focusing on how income inequality and poverty measurements have evolved in recent decades, and shows how to resolve some of the methodological and factual conflicts that have arisen. The book's primary focus is on the analysis of the relationships between individuals' or households' distributions of economic variables. These relationships are crucial in understanding many economic phenomena. Kakwani and Son employ household surveys to illustrate the application of their framework, showing how it can help in drawing evidence-based policy conclusions.

Author : Jonathan Haughton,Shahidur R. Khandker
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821376144

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Handbook on Poverty + Inequality by Jonathan Haughton,Shahidur R. Khandker Pdf

For anyone wanting to learn, in practical terms, how to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze poverty, this Handbook is the place to start. It is designed to be accessible to people with a university-level background in science or the social sciences. It is an invaluable tool for policy analysts, researchers, college students, and government officials working on policy issues related to poverty and inequality.

Author : Juan Gabriel Rodríguez
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781780520346

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Inequality of Opportunity by Juan Gabriel Rodríguez Pdf

Eight papers, both theoretical and applied, on the concept of equality of opportunity which says that a society should guarantee its members equal access to advantage regardless of their circumstances, while holding them responsible for turning that access into actual advantage by the application of effort.

Author : Frank Alan Cowell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015005277655

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Measuring Inequality by Frank Alan Cowell Pdf