Full Description
"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 empirical studies. The theory papers address the link between inequality and social welfare. The mobility papers address issues of unequal growth and intergenerational mobility. The estimation papers address data weighting and equivalent scale issues. The final section presents empirical papers on poverty and inequality for a variety of countries.
Contents
1. The measurement of the inequality of opportunities (J. Ruiz-Castillo). 2. Inequity, welfare and monotonicity (Y. Amiel, F.A. Cowell). 3. Inequality measurement for homogeneous group (U. Ebert). 4. Extended Bi-polarization and inequality measures (J.G. Rodriguez, R. Salas). 5. International comparison of income distributions (S. Bazen, P. Moyes). 6. Mobility comparisons: Does using different measures matter? (D. Checchi, V. Dardanoni). 7. Economic growth, welfare and the measurement of social mobility (J.P. Formby, et al.). 8. Estimating welfare indices: household weights and sample design (F.A. Cowell, S.P. Jenkins). 9. Weighting with individuals, equivalent individuals or not weighting at all. Does it matter empirically? (A. Decoster, E. Ooghe). 10. Personal assessments of minimum income and expenses: What do they tell us about 'Minimum Living Thresholds and Equivalence scales? (T.I. Garner, K.S. Short). 11. A generalized social welfare function and its disaggregation by components of income: The method and application (P. Mukhopadhaya). 12. Equity, efficiency and social welfare: An application of generalized Lorenz dominance to New Zealand incomes data 1984-98 (S. Chatterjee, et al.). 13. U.S income inequality trends and recent immigration (R.I. Lerman). 14.Urban poverty in developed countries (A. Brandolini, P. Cipollone). 15. Regional poverty within the rich countries (D. Jesuit, et al.).
