Research on Economic Inequality

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Chapter 1 Measuring Segregation: Basic Concepts and Extensions to Other Domains , pp 1-35

Jacques Silber

MINIMUM WAGES, POVERTY AND WELFARE , pp 1-35

John P. Formby, John A. Bishop and Hoseong Kim

Introduction , pp 1-4

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

Inequality and Real Income Growth for Middle- and Low-income Households across Rich Countries in Recent Decades , pp 1-28

Brian Nolan and Stefan Thewissen

Equal liberties and the resulting optimum income distribution and taxation , pp 1-36

Serge-Christophe Kolm

NON-UNIFORM CONSUMPTION TAXES: A ‘BLUNT REDISTRIBUTIVE INSTRUMENT’? , pp 1-19

John Creedy

Inheritance Taxation: Redistribution and Predistribution , pp 1-13

Frank Cowell, Dirk Van de gaer and Chang He

Reference Groups and the Poverty Line: An Axiomatic Approach with an Empirical Illustration , pp 1-27

Satya Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, Joseph Deutsch, Zoya Nissanov and Jacques Silber

What helps households with children in leaving poverty? Evidence from Spain , pp 1-29

Olga Cantó, Coral del Rio Otero and Carlos Gradín

Chapter 1 Refining the basic needs approach: A multidimensional analysis of poverty in Latin America , pp 1-29

María Emma Santos, María Ana Lugo, Luis Lopez-Calva, Guillermo Cruces and Diego Battistón

Redistribution and Marginal Productivity Reward , pp 1-6

Alexander Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden

Poverty Profiles and Well-Being: Panel Evidence from Germany , pp 1-22

Andrew Clark, Conchita D’Ambrosio and Simone Ghislandi

WHY DO PEOPLE VIOLATE THE TRANSFER PRINCIPLE? EVIDENCE FROM EDUCATIONAL SAMPLE SURVEYS , pp 1-16

Yoram Amiel, Frank Cowell and Daniel Slottje

Chapter 1 Compensation, Reward, and the Measurement of Unfair Inequalities , pp 1-21

Paolo Brunori and Vito Peragine

An Adverse Social Welfare Consequence of a Rich-to-Poor Income Transfer: A Relative Deprivation Approach , pp 1-37

Oded Stark, Grzegorz Kosiorowski and Marcin Jakubek

The Asset Price Meltdown and Household Wealth over the Great Recession in the United States , pp 1-42

Edward N. Wolff

Regional Income Distribution in the European Union: A Parametric Approach , pp 1-18

Tsvetana Spasova

Explaining Income Inequality Trends: An Integrated Approach , pp 1-47

Petra Sauer, Narasimha D. Rao and Shonali Pachauri

The information theory of segregation: uniting segregation and inequality in a common framework , pp 3-31

Paul A. Jargowsky and Jeongdai Kim

Vulnerable Households and Variable Incomes , pp 3-30

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay and Frank A. Cowell

Lost in Translation: Rethinking the Inequality Equivalence Criteria for Bounded Health Variables , pp 3-32

Gustav Kjellsson and Ulf-G. Gerdtham

Multilateral Wellbeing and Inequality Measurement with Ordered Categorical Data: Health, Consumption and the Aging Process in China , pp 5-30

Gordon Anderson and Rui Fu

Generalized Probabilistic Egalitarianism , pp 7-32

Paul D. Thistle

A Note on Progressive Taxation and Inequality Equivalence , pp 15-33

Claudio Zoli

EFFICIENCY, EQUITY AND DEMOCRACY: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE ON OKUN’S LEAKY BUCKET , pp 17-42

Steven Beckman, John P Formby and W James Smith

Vertical and Horizontal Redistribution: Evidence from Europe , pp 19-38

Maurizio Bussolo, Carla Krolage, Mattia Makovec, Andreas Peichl, Marc Stöckli, Iván Torre and Christian Wittneben

MARGINAL TAX RATES AND THE MEASUREMENT OF TAX PROGRESSIVITY , pp 21-43

Lea Achdut, Yasser Awad and Jacques Silber

Chapter 2 The Implication of Partial Observability of Circumstances on the Measurement of IOp , pp 23-49

Patrizia Luongo

Once Poor, Always Poor? Do Initial Conditions Matter? Evidence from the ECHP , pp 23-70

Eirini Andriopoulou and Panos Tsakloglou

Income Redistribution through Taxes and Transfers across OECD Countries , pp 29-74

Orsetta Causa and Mikkel Hermansen

The Vulnerable Are Not (Necessarily) the Poor , pp 29-57

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

Who are the chronic poor? An econometric analysis of chronic poverty in germany , pp 31-62

Martin Biewen

Chapter 2 Multidimensional poverty among children in Uruguay , pp 31-53

Veronica Amarante, Rodrigo Arim and Andrea Vigorito

Preferences towards redistribution and equality: How important is social capital? , pp 31-47

María A. García-Valiñas, Roberto Fernández-Llera and Benno Torgler

Bayesian Inference for Parametric Growth Incidence Curves , pp 31-55

Edwin Fourrier-Nicolaï and Michel Lubrano

Inequality and Income Gaps , pp 33-56

Ian Preston

Measuring the Inequality of Bounded Distributions: A Joint Analysis of Attainments and Shortfalls , pp 33-52

Oihana Aristondo and Casilda Lasso de la Vega

The invariance properties of the mutual information index of multigroup segregation , pp 33-53

Ricardo Mora Villarrubia and Javier Ruiz-Castillo

Income and Wealth Distributions in a Neoclassical Growth Model with σ ≥ 1 , pp 35-62

Mauro Patrão

Inequality and envy , pp 37-47

Frank Cowell and Udo Ebert

Chapter 2 Occupational Segregation Measures: A Role for Status , pp 37-62

Coral del Rio Otero and Olga Alonso-Villar

THE EFFECT OF CHANGES IN THE REAL MINIMUM WAGE ON TEENAGE EMPLOYMENT EVIDENCE FROM URBAN-AREA DATA , pp 37-72

James Cover and Hoseong Kim

Sources of German Income Inequality Across Time and Space , pp 39-54

Franziska Deutschmann

The Benchmark of Maximum Relative Bipolarisation , pp 39-50

Gaston Yalonetzky

Cross-National Differences in Wealth Portfolios at the Intensive Margin: Is there a Role for Policy? , pp 43-85

Karina Doorley and Eva Sierminska

HOW MANIPULABLE ARE FAIRNESS PERCEPTIONS? THE EFFECT OF ADDITIONAL ALTERNATIVES , pp 43-53

Yoella Bereby-Meyer and Brit Grosskopf

HORIZONTAL EQUITY AND DIFFERENCES IN INCOME TAX TREATMENT: A RECONCILIATION , pp 45-63

Xavier Ramos and Peter J. Lambert

On Measuring ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Income Inequality , pp 49-64

Gordon Anderson

Interdependent preferences in the design of equal-opportunity policies , pp 49-65

Juan Moreno-Ternero

Spanish economic inequality and gender: A parametric Lorenz dominance approach , pp 49-70

Mercedes Prieto-Alaiz