Income inequality, poverty, and economic welfare / Daniel J. Slottje, Baldev Raj, editors.

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.