TY - BOOK AU - Slottje, Daniel J., AU - Raj, Baldev., AU - Cornwell, Antonia. AU - Dagum, Camilo. AU - Rao, Dodla Sai Prasada. AU - Chotikapanich, Duangkamon. AU - Cowell, Frank. AU - Silber, Jacques. AU - Bishop, John A. AU - Creedy, John. AU - Formby, John P. AU - Deutsch, Joseph. AU - Thistle, Paul D. AU - Valenzuela, Rebecca. AU - Jenkins, Stephen P. AU - Amiel, Yoram. TI - Income inequality, poverty, and economic welfare T2 - Studies in empirical economics SN - 379081136X AV - HB 846 .I52 1998 PY - 1998/// CY - New York, New York PB - Physica-Verlag KW - Bienestar social KW - Pobreza N1 - I. Introduction and overview --; Income inequality and poverty empirics: new tools and perspectives; Daniel J. Slottje, Baldev Raj, 3 --; II. Income inequality --; Trends in real income in Britain: a microeconomic analysis; Stephen P. Jenkins, 15 --; Changing American earnings distributions: one-half century of experience; John A. Bishop, John P. Formby and Paul D. Thistle, 33 --; A new approach to the decomposition of the gini income inequality ratio; Camilo Dagum, 47 --; Global and regional inequality in the distribution of income: estimation with limited and incomplete data; Duangkamon Chotikapanich, Rebecca Valenzuela, D. S. Prasada Rao, 65 --; Gini’s "transvariazione" and the measurement of distance between distributions; Joseph Deutsch, Jacques Silber, 79 --; III. Poverty --; The uncertain unit root in the U.S. poverty rate; Baldev Raj, Daniel J. Slottje, 89 --; The measurement of poverty: an experimental questionnaire investigation; Yoram Amiel, Frank Cowell, 105 --; IV Welfare --; Measuring the welfare effects of tax changes using the les: an application to a carbon tax; Antonia Cornwell, John Creedy, 125 ER -