Advances on Income Inequality and Concentration Measures

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 8
Copyright......Page 9
Contents......Page 10
Contributors......Page 13
Figures......Page 15
Tables......Page 18
Acknowledgements......Page 21
Abbreviations......Page 23
Part I Introduction......Page 24
1 Editors’ introduction......Page 26
2 The Lorenz curve: Evergreen after 100 years......Page 35
3 Gini, deprivation and complaints......Page 48
Part II Theory and methods......Page 68
4 Evaluating dominance ranking of PSID incomes by various household attributes......Page 70
5 Indices and tests for alienation based upon Gini type and distributional overlap measures......Page 93
6 Measuring relative equality of concentration between different income/wealth distributions......Page 109
7 Information matrices for some bivariate Pareto distributions......Page 128
8 On Lorenz preorders and opportunity inequality in finite environments......Page 140
Part III Inequality decomposition......Page 152
9 Inequality decomposition, directional economic distance, metric distance, and Gini dissimilarity between income distributions......Page 154
10 On the Shapley value and the decomposition of inequality by population subgroups with special emphasis on the Gini index......Page 184
11 Analysis of the short-term impact of the Argentine social assistance program ‘Plan Jefes y Jefas’ on income inequality applying the Dagum decomposition analysis of the Gini ratio......Page 202
12 The Gini unbound: Analyzing class inequality with model-based clustering......Page 224
Part IV Lorenz curve and Gini measures in applied economics......Page 246
13 The Lorenz curve in economics and econometrics......Page 248
14 Income inequality and the economic position of women in Norway 1970–2002......Page 266
15 Technological choices under institutional constraints: Measuring the impact on earnings dispersion......Page 280
16 Redistributing global income to benefit the poor......Page 304
17 Inequality aversion, income inequality, and social policy in the US: 1947–1998......Page 318
18 Internal migration, household size and income inequality in Turkey......Page 347
Index......Page 363