Measuring Income Inequality

Author : Jacques Silber
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Fredrik Nygård,Arne Sandström
Publisher : Almqvist & Wiksell International
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037438665

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Measuring Income Inequality by Fredrik Nygård,Arne Sandström Pdf

Author : Frank Cowell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Nanak Kakwani,World Bank
Publisher : New York : Published for the World Bank [by] Oxford University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822010677177

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Income Inequality and Poverty by Nanak Kakwani,World Bank Pdf

Deals with income distribution methods and their economic applications.

Author : Juan Gabriel Rodríguez
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Jean-Yves Duclos,Abdelkrim Araar
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0387258930

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Poverty and Equity by Jean-Yves Duclos,Abdelkrim Araar Pdf

This text addresses the understanding and alleviation of poverty, inequality, and inequity using a unique and broad mix of concepts, measurement methods, statistical tools, software, and practical exercises. Part I discusses basic fundamental issues of well-being and poverty measurement. Part II develops an integrated framework for measuring poverty, social welfare, inequality, vertical equity, horizontal equity, and redistribution. Part III presents and develops recent methods for testing the robustness of distributive rankings. Part IV discusses ways of using policy to alleviate poverty, improve welfare, increase equity, and assess the impact of growth. Part V applies the tools to real data. Most of the book’s measurement and statistical tools have been programmed in DAD, a well established and widely available free software program that has been tailored especially for income distribution analysis and is used by scholars, researchers, and analysts in nearly 100 countries worldwide. It requires basic understanding of calculus and statistics. Abdelkrim Araar and Jean-Yves Duclos teach economics at Université Laval in Québec City.

Author : Joseph E. Stiglitz
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620975725

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For Good Measure by Joseph E. Stiglitz Pdf

Today's leading economists weigh in with a new "dashboard" of metrics for measuring our economic and social health "What we measure affects what we do. If we focus only on material well-being—on, say, the production of goods, rather than on health, education, and the environment—we become distorted in the same way that these measures are distorted." —Joseph E. Stiglitz A consensus has emerged among key experts that our conventional economic measures are out of sync with how most people live their lives. GDP, they argue, is a poor and outmoded measure of our well-being. The global movement to move beyond GDP has attracted some of the world's leading economists, statisticians, and social thinkers who have worked collectively to articulate new approaches to measuring economic well-being and social progress. In the decade since the 2008 economic crisis, these experts have come together to determine what indicators can actually tell us about people's lives. In the first book of its kind, leading economists from around the world, including Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, Elizabeth Beasely, Jacob Hacker, François Bourguignon, Nora Lustig, Alan B. Krueger, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, describe a range of fascinating metrics—from economic insecurity and environmental sustainability to inequality of opportunity and levels of trust and resilience—that can be used to supplement the simplistic measure of gross domestic product, providing a far more nuanced and accurate account of societal health and well-being. This groundbreaking volume is sure to provide a major source of ideas and inspiration for one of the most important intellectual movements of our time.

Author : Wiemer Salverda,Brian Nolan,Timothy M. Smeeding
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 759 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Satya R. Chakravarty
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780387792538

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Inequality, Polarization and Poverty by Satya R. Chakravarty Pdf

This book provides a synthesis of some recent issues and an up-to-date treatment of some of the major important issues in distributional analysis that I have covered in my previous book Ethical Social Index Numbers, which was widely accepted by students, teachers, researchers and practitioners in the area. Wide coverage of on-going and advanced topics and their analytical, articulate and authoritative p- sentation make the book theoretically and methodologically quite contemporary and inclusive, and highly responsive to the practical problems of recent concern. Since many countries of the world are still characterized by high levels of income inequality, Chap. 1 analyzes the problems of income inequality measurement in detail. Poverty alleviation is an overriding goal of development and social policy. To formulate antipoverty policies, research on poverty has mostly focused on inco- based indices. In view of this, a substantive analysis of income-based poverty has been presented in Chap. 2. The subject of Chap. 3 is people’s perception about income inequality in terms of deprivation. Since polarization is of current concern to analysts and social decisi- makers, a discussion on polarization is presented in Chap. 4.

Author : Raj Chetty,John N. Friedman,Barry Johnson,Arthur Kennickell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226816043

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Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth by Raj Chetty,John N. Friedman,Barry Johnson,Arthur Kennickell Pdf

A collection of twenty-three studies that explore the latest developments in the analysis of income and wealth distribution and mobility. Economic research is increasingly focused on inequality in the distribution of personal resources and outcomes. One aspect of inequality is mobility: are individuals locked into their respective places in this distribution? To what extent do circumstances change, either over the lifecycle or across generations? Research not only measures inequality and mobility, but also analyzes the historical, economic, and social determinants of these outcomes and the effect of public policies. This volume explores the latest developments in the analysis of income and wealth distribution and mobility. The collection of twenty-three studies is divided into five sections. The first examines observed patterns of income inequality and shifts in the distribution of earnings and in other factors that contribute to it. The next examines wealth inequality, including a substantial discussion of the difficulties of defining and measuring wealth. The third section presents new evidence on the intergenerational transmission of inequality and the mechanisms that underlie it. The next section considers the impact of various policy interventions that are directed at reducing inequality. The final section addresses the challenges of combining household-level data, potentially from multiple sources such as surveys and administrative records, and aggregate data to study inequality, and explores ways to make survey data more comparable with national income accounts data.

Author : Frank Alan Cowell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015005277655

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Measuring Inequality by Frank Alan Cowell Pdf

Author : A. B. Atkinson,Thomas Piketty
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191500886

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Top Incomes by A. B. Atkinson,Thomas Piketty Pdf

A rapidly growing area of economic research investigates the top of the income distribution using data from income tax records. This volume brings together studies of top incomes for twelve countries from around the world, including China, India, Japan, Argentina and Indonesia. Together with the first volume, published in 2007, the studies cover twenty two countries. They have a long time span, the earliest data relating to 1875 (for Norway), allowing recent developments to be placed in historical perspective. The volume describes in detail the source data and the methods employed. It will be an invaluable reference source for researchers in the field. Individual country chapters deal with the specific nature of the data for each of the countries, and describe the long-term evolution of top income shares. In the countries as a whole, dramatic changes have taken place at the top of the income distribution. Over the first part of the century, top income shares fell markedly. This largely took the form of a reduction in capital incomes. The different authors examine the impact of the First and Second World Wars, contrasting countries that were and were not engaged. They consider the impact of depressions and banking crises, and pay particular attention to the impact of progressive taxation. In the last 30 years, the shares of top incomes have increased markedly in the US and other Anglo-Saxon countries, reflecting the increased dispersion of earnings. The volume includes statistics on the much-discussed top pay and bonuses, providing a global perspective that discusses important differences between countries such as the lesser increase in Continental Europe. This book, together with volume 1, documents this interesting development and explores the underlying causes. The findings are brought together in a final summary chapter by Atkinson, Piketty and Saez.

Author : Mr.Benedict J. Clements,Ruud A. de Mooij,Mr.Sanjeev Gupta,Mr.Michael Keen
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513567754

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Inequality and Fiscal Policy by Mr.Benedict J. Clements,Ruud A. de Mooij,Mr.Sanjeev Gupta,Mr.Michael Keen Pdf

The sizeable increase in income inequality experienced in advanced economies and many parts of the world since the 1990s and the severe consequences of the global economic and financial crisis have brought distributional issues to the top of the policy agenda. The challenge for many governments is to address concerns over rising inequality while simultaneously promoting economic efficiency and more robust economic growth. The book delves into this discussion by analyzing fiscal policy and its link with inequality. Fiscal policy is the government’s most powerful tool for addressing inequality. It affects households ‘consumption directly (through taxes and transfers) and indirectly (via incentives for work and production and the provision of public goods and individual services such as education and health). An important message of the book is that growth and equity are not necessarily at odds; with the appropriate mix of policy instruments and careful policy design, countries can in many cases achieve better distributional outcomes and improve economic efficiency. Country studies (on the Netherlands, China, India, Republic of Congo, and Brazil) demonstrate the diversity of challenges across countries and their differing capacity to use fiscal policy for redistribution. The analysis presented in the book builds on and extends work done at the IMF, and also includes contributions from leading academics.

Author : The Core Team
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Economic policy
ISBN : 0198849842

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Economy, Society and Public Policy by The Core Team Pdf

Economy, Society, and Public Policy is a new way to learn economics. It is designed specifically for students studying social sciences, public policy, business studies, engineering and other disciplines who want to understand how the economy works and how it can be made to work better. Topical policy problems are used to motivate learning of key concepts and methods of economics. It engages, challenges and empowers students, and will provide them with the tools to articulate reasoned views on pressing policy problems. This project is the result of a worldwide collaboration between researchers, educators, and students who are committed to bringing the socially relevant insights of economics to a broader audience.KEY FEATURESESPP does not teach microeconomics as a body of knowledge separate from macroeconomicsStudents begin their study of economics by understanding that the economy is situated within society and the biosphereStudents study problems of identifying causation, not just correlation, through the use of natural experiments, lab experiments, and other quantitative methodsSocial interactions, modelled using simple game theory, and incomplete information, modelled using a series of principal-agent problems, are introduced from the beginning. As a result, phenomena studied by the other social sciences such as social norms and the exercise of power play a roleThe insights of diverse schools of thought, from Marx and the classical economists to Hayek and Schumpeter, play an integral part in the bookThe way economists think about public policy is central to ESPP. This is introduced in Units 2 and 3, rather than later in the course.

Author : Daniel J. Slottje
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,6 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.