Household Behaviour, Equivalence Scales, Welfare and Poverty (Contributions to Statistics)
Contributors: Camilo Dagum (Editor); Guido Ferrari (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
Published: December 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9783790801088
Subjects: Macroeconomics; Income distribution; Business/Economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Statistics; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Mathematical models; Econometrics; Economics - General; Business & Economics / Statistics; Personal Finance - General
Description: The book presents a quantitative analysis of household income distribution, welfare, poverty, cost of raising children, and taxation problems. The innovative construction of equivalence scales as an instrument for the assessment of these variables allows a unified treatment of households of different sizes and age composition with the scope of advancing a meaningful and relevant research on welfare, taxation, and poverty. Each chapter of the book offers a self-contained theoretical and methodological presentation, enhanced with applications to real-life case studies.