Income inequality, poverty, and economic welfare /
Daniel J. Slottje, Baldev Raj, editors.
- New York, New York : Physica-Verlag, 1998.
- vi, 149 páginas ; 24 cm.
- Studies in empirical economics .
- Studies in empirical economics (Physica-Verlag) .
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 / Daniel J. Slottje, Baldev Raj, 3 -- Stephen P. Jenkins, 15 -- John A. Bishop, John P. Formby and Paul D. Thistle, 33 -- Camilo Dagum, 47 -- Duangkamon Chotikapanich, Rebecca Valenzuela, D. S. Prasada Rao, 65 -- Joseph Deutsch, Jacques Silber, 79 -- Baldev Raj, Daniel J. Slottje, 89 -- Yoram Amiel, Frank Cowell, 105 -- Antonia Cornwell, John Creedy, 125.