Journal of Economic Inequality

2003 - 2009

Edited by Jacques Silber

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Volume 7, issue 4, 2009

A dwindling middle class? Italian evidence in the 2000s pp. 333-350

Riccardo Massari, Maria Pittau and Roberto Zelli

Weights on the rise: where and for whom? pp. 351-370

David Sahn

Measuring opportunity inequality with monetary transfers pp. 371-385

Laurence Kranich

Between- and within-group wage inequalities, and the advent of new technology pp. 387-394

Atsushi Miyake, Kazunobu Muro, Tamotsu Nakamura and Masaya Yasuoka

Measuring the impact of price changes on poverty pp. 395-410

Hyun Son and Nanak Kakwani

Inequality of opportunity in the land of opportunities, 1968–2001 pp. 411-433

Nicolas Pistolesi

Constructing indices of multivariate polarization pp. 435-460

Chiara Gigliarano and Karl Mosler

Volume 7, issue 3, 2009

The sensitivity of income polarization pp. 207-223

Mohammad Hussain

How important is rank to individual perception of economic standing? A within-community analysis pp. 225-248

Nattavudh Powdthavee

Third-degree stochastic dominance and inequality measurement pp. 249-268

Michel Le Breton and Eugenio Peluso

Mini-symposium: The 1990, 1992 and 1993 papers on distributionally sensitive measures of unemployment by Manimay Sengupta and Anthony Shorrocks pp. 269-271

Peter Lambert

Unemployment duration and the measurement of unemployment pp. 273-294

Manimay Sengupta

Spell incidence, spell duration and the measurement of unemployment pp. 295-310

Anthony Shorrocks

On the measurement of unemployment pp. 311-327

Anthony Shorrocks

Book review of “The EU and social inclusion. Facing the challenges” pp. 329-331

Conchita D’Ambrosio

Volume 7, issue 2, 2009

Household wealth and the measurement of economic well-being in the United States pp. 83-115

Edward Wolff and Ajit Zacharias

A model based approach for predicting annual poverty rates without expenditure data pp. 117-135

Astrid Mathiassen

The “melting pot”: A success story? pp. 137-151

Shlomo Yitzhaki and Edna Schechtman

Decomposition of gini and multivariate gini indices pp. 153-177

Masato Okamoto

Inequality in the relative differential sense with continuous distributions pp. 179-187

Zhengli Gu and Paul Madden

Inequality, unemployment and growth: New measures for old controversies pp. 189-206

James Galbraith

Volume 7, issue 1, 2009

Foreword pp. 1-1

Jean-Yves Duclos

Introduction to a special issue on “inequality, politics and power” pp. 3-4

Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Branko Milanovic

Poverty, inequality, and populist politics in Iran pp. 5-28

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

Informatization, voter turnout and income inequality pp. 29-54

Ryo Arawatari

Inequality and education decisions in developing countries pp. 55-81

Catalina Gutierrez and Ryuichi Tanaka

Volume 6, issue 4, 2008

Robust human development rankings pp. 287-321

Laurens Cherchye, Erwin Ooghe and Tom Puyenbroeck

Biases of the ordinary least squares and instrumental variables estimators of the intergenerational earnings elasticity: Revisited in the light of panel data pp. 323-350

Ramses H. Abul Naga

Inequality, happiness and relative concerns: What actually is their relationship? pp. 351-372

Ed Hopkins

The China health and nutrition survey: an important database for poverty and inequality research pp. 373-376

Haiyong Liu

Volume 6, issue 3, 2008

Reinterpreting between-group inequality pp. 231-245

Chris Elbers, Peter Frederik Lanjouw, Johan Andre Mistiaen and Berk Özler

Discrete choice models of labour supply, behavioural microsimulation and the Spanish tax reforms pp. 247-273

Jose M. Labeaga, Xisco Oliver and Amedeo Spadaro

Tony Atkinson's 1973 manuscript “More on the measurement of inequality” pp. 275-276

Peter Lambert

More on the measurement of inequality pp. 277-283

A. Atkinson

Volume 6, issue 2, 2008

Beyond Oaxaca–Blinder: Accounting for differences in household income distributions pp. 117-148

François J. Bourguignon, Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Phillippe Leite

Poverty, income distribution and CGE micro-simulation modeling: Does the functional form of distribution matter? pp. 149-184

Dorothee Boccanfuso, Bernard Decaluwe and Luc Savard

How feminine is corporate America? A recent overview pp. 185-209

Gabrielle Wanzenried

The ‘Extended’ Atkinson family: The class of multiplicatively decomposable inequality measures, and some new graphical procedures for analysts pp. 211-225

Casilda Lasso de la Vega and Ana Urrutia

Volume 6, issue 1, 2008

Introduction pp. 1-1

Jean-Yves Duclos

Ranking inequality: Applications of multivariate subset selection pp. 5-32

William C. Horrace, Joseph Marchand and Timothy Smeeding

Inference for the measurement of poverty in the presence of a stochastic weighting variable pp. 33-55

Bram Thuysbaert

Can a minimum wage increase have an adverse impact on inequality? Evidence from two Latin American economies pp. 57-71

Diego Angel-Urdinola

The empirical assessment of multidimensional welfare, inequality and poverty: Sample weighted multivariate generalizations of the Kolmogorov–Smirnov two sample tests for stochastic dominance pp. 73-87

Gordon Anderson

Poverty, undernutrition, and child mortality: Some inter-regional puzzles and their implicationsfor research and policy pp. 89-115

Stephan Klasen

Volume 5, issue 3, 2007

Foreword pp. 257-257

Jacques Silber

Guest Editors’ Introduction pp. 259-262

Gianni Betti and Achille Lemmi

Ethical inequality measures and the redistribution of income when needs differ pp. 263-278

Udo Ebert

An extended Gini approach to inequality measurement pp. 279-303

Patrick Moyes

Gini’s nuclear family pp. 305-322

Rolf Aaberge

Inequality and deprivation within and between groups: An illustration of European union countries pp. 323-337

Elena Barcena-Martin, Luis Imedio-Olmedo and Guillermina Martín-Reyes

A deprivation-based axiomatic characterization of the absolute Bonferroni index of inequality pp. 339-351

Satya R. Chakravarty

The impact of taxes and transfer payments on the distribution of income: A parametric comparison pp. 353-369

Samuel Dastrup, Rachel Hartshorn and James McDonald

Bivariate income distributions with lognormal conditionals pp. 371-383

José Sarabia, Enrique Castillo, Marta Pascual and María Sarabia

Volume 5, issue 2, 2007

Minimum wages and poverty with income-sharing pp. 135-147

Gary Fields and Ravi Kanbur

The comparative statics of differential rents in two-sided matching markets pp. 149-158

Wing Suen

The effects of measurement error and omitted variables when using transition matrices to measure intergenerational mobility pp. 159-178

Donal O’Neill, Olive Sweetman and Dirk Van de gaer

Removing the anonymity axiom in assessing pro-poor growth pp. 179-197

Michael Grimm

A Shapley-based decomposition of the R-Square of a linear regression pp. 199-212

Osnat Israeli

Editorial: Serge Kolm’s “The Optimal Production of Social Justice” pp. 213-234

Peter Lambert

Equity, efficiency and inequality traps: A research agenda pp. 235-256

François J. Bourguignon, Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Michael Walton

Volume 5, issue 1, 2007

An Extension of a Measure of Polarization, with an application to the income distribution of five OECD countries pp. 1-19

Joan Esteban, Carlos Gradín and Debraj Ray

Robust stochastic dominance: A semi-parametric approach pp. 21-37

Frank Alan Cowell and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser

Who is on the rise in Austria: Wage mobility and mobility risk pp. 39-51

Thomas Raferzeder and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

Does persistence of social exclusion exist in Spain? pp. 53-72

Ambra Poggi

Poverty in Kathmandu: What do subjective and objective economic welfare concepts suggest? pp. 73-95

Udaya R. Wagle

Tracing out the effects of demographic changes on the income distribution pp. 97-114

Mariana Marchionni and Leonardo C. Gasparini

Region-specific versus country-specific poverty lines in analysis of poverty pp. 115-122

Magne Mogstad, Audun Langørgen and Rolf Aaberge

On the links between globalization and poverty pp. 123-134

Ann E. Harrison and Margaret Mcmillan