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Income Inequality, Poverty, and Economic Welfare

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Daniel J. Slottje

    1. Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA

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  2. Baldev Raj

    1. Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada

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Part of the book series: Studies in Empirical Economics (STUDEMP)

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Table of contents (9 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VII
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  2. Introduction and Overview

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Income Inequality and Poverty Empirics: New Tools and Perspectives

      • Daniel J. Slottje, Baldev Raj
      Pages 3-11

  3. Income Inequality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Trends in Real Income in Britain: A Microeconomic Analysis

      • Stephen P. Jenkins
      Pages 15-32

    3. Changing American Earnings Distributions: One-Half Century of Experience

      • John A. Bishop, John P. Formby, Paul D. Thistle
      Pages 33-46

    4. A New Approach to the Decomposition of the Gini Income Inequality Ratio

      • Camilo Dagum
      Pages 47-63

    5. Global and Regional Inequality in the Distribution of Income: Estimation with Limited and Incomplete Data

      • Duangkamon Chotikapanich, Rebecca Valenzuela, D. S. Prasada Rao
      Pages 65-78

    6. Gini’s “Transvariazione” and the Measurement of Distance Between Distributions

      • Joseph Deutsch, Jacques Silber
      Pages 79-86

  4. Poverty

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. The Uncertain Unit Root in the U.S. Poverty Rate

      • Baldev Raj, Daniel J. Slottje
      Pages 89-104

    3. The Measurement of Poverty: An Experimental Questionnaire Investigation

      • Yoram Amiel, Frank Cowell
      Pages 105-122

  5. Welfare

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
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    2. Measuring the Welfare Effects of Tax Changes Using the LES: An Application to a Carbon Tax

      • Antonia Cornwell, John Creedy
      Pages 125-149
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About this book

Presented are new methods and new empirical studies on the subject of income inequality and poverty. The purpose of the book is to explore new ways to analyze recent trends in income inequality and poverty, both from the perspective of quantifying poverty and inequality and quantifyig the impact of various factors on the trends in inequality and poverty. The novelty lies in the diversity of empirical approaches used and customers will benefit from learning about different methods.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA

    Daniel J. Slottje

  • Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada

    Baldev Raj

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Income Inequality, Poverty, and Economic Welfare

  • Editors: Daniel J. Slottje, Baldev Raj

  • Series Title: Studies in Empirical Economics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51073-1

  • Publisher: Physica Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-51075-5Published: 15 April 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-51073-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-8830

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-8950

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 149

  • Topics: Economics, general, Sociology, general

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