Gianni Betti / Achille Lemmi (eds.)

Advances on Income Inequality and Concentration Measures

Herausgeber: Betti, Gianni; Lemmi, Achille

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This impressive collection from some of todaya (TM)s leading distributional analysts provides an overview a wide range of economic, statistical and sociological relationships that have been opened up for scientific study by the work of two turn-of-the-20th-century economists: C. Gini and M. O. Lorenz. The authors include such figues as Barry Arnold and Frank Cowell and the resulting book deserves its place on the bookshelf of serious mathematical economists everywhere.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9780415443371
• ISBN-10: 0415443377
• Artikelnr.: 25007322

Autorenporträt

Gianni Betti is Associate Professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Siena. Achille Lemmi is Professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Siena.

Inhaltsangabe

Section I. Introduction
1. Editors' introduction
2. The Lorenz Curve: Evergreen after 100 years
3. Gini
Deprivation and Complaints
Section II. Theory and Methods
4. Evaluating Dominance Ranking of PSID Incomes by various Household Attributes
5. Indices and Tests for Alienation Based Upon Gini Type and Distributional Overlap Measures
6. Measuring relative equality of concentration between different income/wealth distributions
7. Information Matrices for some Bivariate Pareto Distributions
8. On Lorenz Preorders and Opportunity Inequality in Finite Environments
Section III. Inequality decomposition
9. Inequality decomposition
directional economic distance
metric distance
and Gini dissimilarity between income distributions
10. On the Shapley Value and the Decomposition of Inequality by Population Subgroups with Special Emphasis on the Gini Index
11. 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
12. The Gini Unbound: Analyzing Class Inequality with Model-Based Clustering
Section IV. Lorenz curve and Gini measures in applied economics
13. The Lorenz curve in economics and econometrics
14. Income inequality and the economic position of women in Norway 1970 - 2002
15. Technological choices under institutional constraints: measuring the impact on earnings dispersion
16. Redistributing Global Income to Benefit the Poor
17. Inequality Aversion
Income Inequality
and Social Policy in the US: 1947 - 1998
18. Internal Migration
Household Size and Income Inequality in Turkey