Income Inequality, Poverty, and Economic Welfare

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

Del i serien Studies in Empirical Economics

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-04-15
Mått:155 x 235 x 9 mm
Vikt:254 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Empirical Economics
Antal sidor:149
Upplaga:1998
Förlag:Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
ISBN:9783642510755

Utforska kategorier

Nationalekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Innehållsförteckning

I Introduction and Overview.- Income Inequality and Poverty Empirics: New Tools and Perspectives.- II Income Inequality.- Trends in Real Income in Britain: A Microeconomic Analysis.- Changing American Earnings Distributions: One-Half Century of Experience.- A New Approach to the Decomposition of the Gini Income Inequality Ratio.- Global and Regional Inequality in the Distribution of Income: Estimation with Limited and Incomplete Data.- Gini’s “Transvariazione” and the Measurement of Distance Between Distributions.- III Poverty.- The Uncertain Unit Root in the U.S. Poverty Rate.- The Measurement of Poverty: An Experimental Questionnaire Investigation.- IV Welfare.- Measuring the Welfare Effects of Tax Changes Using the LES: An Application to a Carbon Tax.