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Handbook of Income Inequality Measurement

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Editors:
  1. Jacques Silber

    1. Bar-Ilan University, Israel

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Part of the book series: Recent Economic Thought (RETH, volume 71)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Jacques Silber
    Pages 1-18

  3. The Rational Foundations of Income Inequality Measurement

    • Serge-Christophe Kolm
    Pages 19-100

  4. Linking the Functional and Personal Distributions of Income

    • Camilo Dagum
    Pages 101-132

  5. Income Inequality Measurement: The Normative Approach

    • Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert, David Donaldson
    Pages 133-161

  6. Measuring Inequality: The Axiomatic Approach

    • Satya R. Chakravarty
    Pages 163-186

  7. The Mathematical Foundations of Inequality Analysis

    • Michel Le Breton
    Pages 187-198

  8. Stochastic Dominance and the Lorenz Curve

    • Patrick Moyes
    Pages 199-225

  9. The Measurement of Income Inequality: The Subjective Approach

    • Yoram Amiel
    Pages 227-243

  10. Income Inequality Measurement: The Statistical Approach

    • Giovanni M. Giorgi
    Pages 245-267

  11. Estimation of Inequality Indices

    • Frank A. Cowell
    Pages 269-289

  12. Parametric Apppoximations of the Lorenz Curve

    • Hang K. Ryu, Daniel J. Slottje
    Pages 291-314

  13. Tests of Significance for Lorenz Partial Orders

    • John A. Bishop, John P. Formby
    Pages 315-339

  14. How do Income Sources Affect Income Inequality?

    • Robert I. Lerman
    Pages 341-362

  15. Inequality Decomposition by Population Subgroups and the Analysis of Interdistributional Inequality

    • Joseph Deutsch, Jacques Silber
    Pages 363-403

  16. Equivalence Scales and Inequality

    • Frank A. Cowell, Magda Mercader-Prats
    Pages 405-435

  17. Multidimensioned Approaches to Welfare Analysis

    • Esfandiar Maasoumi
    Pages 437-484

  18. Redistributional Effects of Progressive Income Taxes

    • Peter J. Lambert
    Pages 485-511

  19. Lifetime Versus Annual Income Distribution

    • John Creedy
    Pages 513-534

  20. Horizontal Inequity Measurement: A Basic Reassessment

    • Stephen P. Jenkins, Peter J. Lambert
    Pages 535-556
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Bar-Ilan University, Israel

    Jacques Silber

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of Income Inequality Measurement

  • Editors: Jacques Silber

  • Series Title: Recent Economic Thought

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4413-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8574-5Published: 31 August 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5897-1Published: 29 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4413-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-199X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 654

  • Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Public Economics, Microeconomics

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