Inequalities: Theory, Experiments and Applications

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-3-7046-6069-5
Verlag: Verlag Österreich

Buch, Englisch, 363 Seiten, PB, Gewicht: 540 g

Wellknown economists analyze and discuss the latest developments in inequality economics, predominantly income inequality. The papers are theoretical, empirical and experimental and have not been published beforehand. They give answers to the problem of measurement of inequality and related topics such as equivalence scales or the influence especially of the public authorities in the way of different kinds of taxation. This volume is of special interest for all those working in the field of distributional economics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moyes, Patrick

Seidl, Christian

Shorrocks, Anthony

Inhaltsverzeichnis

From the contents:
- Inequality Measurement, Decomposition, and Redistribution: Horizontal Inequity Can Be A Good Thing; Welfare, Inequality and the Transformation of Incomes - The Case of Weighted Income Distributions; Shapley Inequality Decomposition by Factor Components: Some Methodological Issues; Approximating Unanimity Orderings: An Application to Lorenz Dominance; A Note on Inverse Stochastic Dominance and Inequality Measurement
- Experimental Investigation of Distributional Issues: How Should Income Be Divided?; The Choice of Inequality Measure in Empirical Research on Distributive Judgements; Preference Reversal in Taxation; The Over-Generous Boon: Tax Splitting in Germany
- Statistical Inference and Empirical Applications: Bootstrapping Inequality Measures under the Null Hypothesis: Is it Worth the Effort?; Inference on Inequality Measures: A Monte Carlo Experiment; Modelling Poverty Dynamics: A Multivariate Analysis Using The BHPS, Waves 1 - 7