| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
BettiGianni, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
LemmiAchille, |
| Place of Publication: |
Abingdon |
| Published: |
Routledge; |
| Year of Publication: |
2008 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xxii, 346 p.) |
| Series: |
Routledge frontiers of political economy |
| Subject: |
Income distribution - Mathematical models - |
| Subject: |
Lorenz curve - |
| Subject: |
Gini coefficient - |
| Subject: |
Poverty - Mathematical models - |
| Subject: |
Electronic books - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.crcnetbase.com/isbn/978-0-415-44337-1 |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record |
| Summary: |
This impressive collection from leading distributional analysts provides an overview of a wide range of economic, statistical and sociological relationships. The resulting book deserves its place on the bookshelf of serious mathematical economists everywhere |
| ISBN: |
9780203927922electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0203927923electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780415443371hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0415443377hbk. |
| Content Note: |
Editor's introduction -- The Lorenz curve: evergreen after 100 years -- Gini, deprivation, and complaints -- Theory and methods -- Evaluating dominance ranking of PSID incomes by various household attributes -- Indices and tests for alienation based upon Gini type and distributional overlap measures -- Measuring relative equality of concentration between different income/wealth distributions -- Information matrices for some bivariate Pareto distributions -- On Lorenz preorders and opportunity inequality in finite environments -- Inequality decomposition -- Inequality decomposition, directional economic distance, metric distance, and Gini dissimilarity between income distributions -- On the shapley value and the decomposition of inequality by population subgroups with special emphasis on the Gini index -- 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 -- The Gini unbound: analyzing class inequality with model-based clustering -- Lorenz curve and Gini measures in applied economics -- The Lorenz curve in economics and econometrics -- Income inequality and the economic position of women in Norway 1970 -- 2002 -- Technological choices under institutional constraints: measuring the impact on earnings dispersion -- Redistributing global income to benefit the poor -- Inequality aversion, income inequality, and social policy in the US: 1947 -- 1998 -- Internal migration, household size and income inequality in Turkey |