Advances on income inequality and concentration measures
By: edited by Gianni Betti and Achille Lemmi.
Contributors: Betti, Gianni.; Lemmi, Achille.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Abingdon; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415443371; 9780203927922
Subjects: Income distribution -- Mathematical models; Lorenz curve; Gini coefficient; Poverty -- Mathematical models
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Editor's introduction; title: The Lorenz curve: evergreen after 100 years; title: Gini, deprivation,  and complaints; title: Theory and methods; title: Evaluating dominance ranking of PSID incomes by various household attributes; title: Indices and tests for alienation based upon Gini type and distributional overlap measures; title: Measuring relative equality of concentration between different income/wealth distributions; title: Information matrices for some bivariate Pareto distributions; title: On Lorenz preorders and opportunity inequality in finite environments; title: Inequality decomposition; title: Inequality decomposition, directional economic distance, metric distance, and Gini dissimilarity between income distributions; title: On the shapley value and the decomposition of inequality by population subgroups with special emphasis on the Gini index; title: Analysis of the short term impact of the Argentine social assistance program plan; title: Jefes y Jefas on income inequality applying the Dagum decomposition analysis of the Gini ratio; title: The Gini unbound: analyzing class inequality with model-based clustering; title: Lorenz curve and Gini measures in applied economics; title: The Lorenz curve in economics and econometrics; title: Income inequality and the economic position of women in Norway 1970 - 2002; title: Technological choices under institutional constraints: measuring the impact on earnings dispersion; title: Redistributing global income to benefit the poor; title: Inequality aversion, income inequality, and social policy in the US: 1947 - 1998; title: Internal migration, household size and income inequality in Turkey.