Models and Measurement of Welfare and Inequality

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Inequality Changes and Income Growth....Pages 3-27
Measurement of Income Inequality : Observed Versus True Data....Pages 28-32
Income Sufficiency, Expenditures and Subjective Poverty: Results from the United States and the Netherlands....Pages 33-66
Acceptance of Distributional Axioms: Experimental Findings....Pages 67-99
The Age-Adjusted Inequality Measure of Gini Used to Measure Inequality in Health Care Costs....Pages 100-110
A New Compromise Measure of Inequality....Pages 111-119
Inequality, Poverty Measurement and Welfare Dominance : An Attempt at Unification....Pages 120-140
The Scope of Inequality Coefficients....Pages 141-161
Transformations of Stochastic Orderings....Pages 162-175
Decomposition of Inequality Measures....Pages 176-192
On Atkinson’s Index and Consensus in Rankings of Income Distributions....Pages 193-205
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Income Tax and Cost-of-Living Indices....Pages 209-225
Risk-Taking Behavior and Inflation Adjustment of Personal Income Taxes....Pages 226-236
The Analytics of Splitting Under Income Taxation....Pages 237-252
Welfare Effects of Abolishing the German Business Taxes — An Applied General Equilibrium Analysis —....Pages 253-285
Welfare or Pareto-Improving Directions of Piecemeal Tax Reform....Pages 286-298
Redistribution through the Income Tax....Pages 299-315
Retrieving Inequality Concepts and Progressivity Objectives from Tax Functions via Approximations....Pages 316-325
Merit Goods and Welfarism....Pages 326-336
Measurement of Tax Progressivity with Nonconstant Income Distributions....Pages 337-360
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
The Taxation of Married Couples in Germany: Distributive and Allocative Aspects....Pages 361-395
Income Equality and Income Taxation....Pages 396-418
Income Tax Reform in Germany: A Welfare Analysis....Pages 419-432
Income Taxes: The Interaction Between Government and Labour Unions....Pages 433-447
On The Progressivity of Commodity Taxation....Pages 448-466
Front Matter....Pages 467-467
On the Use of the-Distance Function for Measuring Welfare in Quantity Constrained Regimes....Pages 469-490
On Interpersonal Comparison and the Concept of Equality....Pages 491-510
Welfare Aspects of Consumption Plans....Pages 511-515
Public Budgeting and Social Welfare....Pages 516-536
On the Uniqueness of Cardinally Interpreted Utility Functions....Pages 537-551
The Measurement of Aggregate Welfare....Pages 552-592
The Effect of Relative Price Changes and Cost of Living Adjustments on Some Welfare Indices....Pages 593-611
Consumer’s Welfare and Price Uncertainty....Pages 612-629
A Reconsideration of Income Compensation Functions in Social Welfare Theory....Pages 630-642
EC Integration and the Structure of the Franco-American Airline Industries: Implications for Efficiency and Welfare....Pages 643-665
Regulation and Control of Hazardous Wastes: A Welfare-Theoretic Analysis....Pages 666-693
Money Metric Measures of Individual and Social Welfare Allowing for Environmental Externalities....Pages 694-724
‘Social Welfare Function’ Measures of Horizontal Inequity....Pages 725-751
Commodity Aggregation and Slutsky Asymmetry....Pages 752-764
Indices of Welfare for the Economy and Households in Distorted Open Economies....Pages 765-786
Front Matter....Pages 467-467
Resources and Functionings: A New View of Inequality in Australia....Pages 787-807
Multidimensional Welfarisms....Pages 808-820
Welfare Loss with Intermediate Goods....Pages 821-840
Valuing Reductions of Public Risks: The Case of Hazardous Waste....Pages 841-868
Harsanyi’s Social Aggregation Theorem with Alternative Pareto Principles....Pages 869-887
Front Matter....Pages 889-889
The Use of Fuzzy Set Techniques in the Context of Welfare Decisions....Pages 891-899
Monotonicity and Separability....Pages 900-911
Employment Segregation Indices: An Axiomatic Characterization....Pages 912-920
Theory and Calculation of Productivity Indexes....Pages 921-940
A Model of Interdependent Consumer Behavior: Nonlinear Dynamics in ℝ 2 ....Pages 941-962
An Impossibility Result Concerning Distributive Justice in Axiomatic Bargaining....Pages 963-969
Rational Justice and Equality....Pages 970-992
Existence and Stability of Equilibrium in a Multisectoral Model with Quantity Rationing....Pages 993-1010
Efficient Stationary Capital Accumulation Structures of a Biconvex Production Technology....Pages 1011-1018