Inequality and opportunity papers from the second ECINEQ society meeting

Volume 16 of Research on Economic contains a selection of thirteen papers from the Second Biannual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Berlin, July, 2007. This conference brings together both established scholars in the field of income distribution as well as advanced gradua...

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Corporate Author Society for the Study of Economic Inequality
Other Authors Bishop, John A., Zheng, Buhong
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2008.
SeriesResearch on economic inequality ; v. 16.
Subjects
Equality > Congresses.
Poverty > Congresses.
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electronic books
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Table of Contents:
  • Equal liberties and the resulting optimum income distribution and taxation / Serge-Christophe Kolm
  • Equalizing income versus equalizing opportunity :a comparison of the United States and Germany / Ingvild Almås
  • Intergenerational income inequality and dynastic poverty persistence : Germany and the United States compared / Veronika V. Eberharter
  • Measuring inequality with ordinal data: a note / Buhong Zheng
  • Multidimensional unit- and subgroup-consistent inequality and poverty measures : some characterizations / Henar Díez, Ma Casilda Lasso de la Vega, Ana Urrutia
  • Rankings of income distributions : a note on intermediate inequality indices / Coral del Río, Olga Alonso-Villar
  • The Bonferroni, Gini, and De Vergottini indices : inequality, welfare, and deprivation in the European union in 2000 / Elena Bárcena, Luis J. Imedio
  • On various ways of measuring unemployment, with applications to Switzerland / Joseph Deutsch, Yves Flckiger, Jacques Silber
  • Income mobility in Argentina / Luis Beccaria, Fernando Groisman
  • Risk level and inequality preference / Liema Davidovitz
  • Inequality and envy / Frank Cowell, Udo Ebert
  • Interdependent preferences in the design of equal-opportunity policies / Juan D. Moreno-Ternero
  • Higher education and equality of opportunity in Italy / Vito Peragine, Laura Serlenga
  • Inequality of opportunity for income in five countries of Africa / Denis Cogneau, Sandrine Mesplé-Somps
  • Introduction / John A. Bishop, Buhong Zheng.

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