Advances on income inequality and concentration measures [electronic resource] / edited by Gianni Betti and Achille Lemmi.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Betti, Gianni
Lemmi, Achille
Language:English
Published: Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
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Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Editor's introduction
  • The Lorenz curve: evergreen after 100 years
  • Gini, deprivation, and complaints
  • Theory and methods
  • Evaluating dominance ranking of PSID incomes by various household attributes
  • Indices and tests for alienation based upon Gini type and distributional overlap measures
  • Measuring relative equality of concentration between different income/wealth distributions
  • Information matrices for some bivariate Pareto distributions
  • On Lorenz preorders and opportunity inequality in finite environments
  • Inequality decomposition
  • Inequality decomposition, directional economic distance, metric distance, and Gini dissimilarity between income distributions
  • On the shapley value and the decomposition of inequality by population subgroups with special emphasis on the Gini index
  • Analysis of the short term impact of the Argentine social assistance program plan
  • Jefes y Jefas on income inequality applying the Dagum decomposition analysis of the Gini ratio
  • The Gini unbound: analyzing class inequality with model-based clustering
  • Lorenz curve and Gini measures in applied economics
  • The Lorenz curve in economics and econometrics
  • Income inequality and the economic position of women in Norway 1970 - 2002
  • Technological choices under institutional constraints: measuring the impact on earnings dispersion
  • Redistributing global income to benefit the poor
  • Inequality aversion, income inequality, and social policy in the US: 1947 - 1998
  • Internal migration, household size and income inequality in Turkey.