Inequality and poverty papers from the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality's inaugural meeting

This volume is a collection of papers presented at the first meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ). The Societys aims are to provide an international forum for all researchers interested in the study of economic inequality and related fields, bringing together the dive...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bishop, John
Corporate Author: Society for the Study of Economic Inequality Meeting
Other Authors: Amiel, Yoram
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. Emerald 2007
Series:Research on economic inequality
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Collection: Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Collection Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • What helps households with children in leaving poverty? Evidence from Spain / Olga Cantó, Coral del Río, Carlos Gradín
  • Income inequality in the EU15 and member countries / Angela Trotiño Cobas
  • The evolution of economic inequality in the EU countries during the nineties : a new methodological approach / Juana Domínguez-Domínguez, José Javier Núñez-Velázquez
  • Welfare, inequality and poverty rankings in the European Union using an inference-based stochastic dominance approach / Ismael Ahamdanech Zarco, Carmelo García Pérez
  • Poverty among the elderly : an assessment of the Italian social policies / Daniela Monacelli
  • Comparing multidimensional indices of inequality : methods and application / María Ana Lugo
  • Decomposing income inequality by population subgroups : a generalization / Joseph Deutsch, Jacques Silber
  • Restricted inequality and relative poverty / Jean-Yves Duclos, Paul Makdissi
  • Poverty-efficient programme reforms with heterogeneous agents : the role of targeting and allocation rules / Rocio Garcia-Diaz
  • Poverty-reducing commodity tax reforms / Alessandro Santoro
  • Preferences towards redistribution and equality : how important is social capital? / María A. García-Valiñas, Roberto Fernández Llera, Benno Torgler
  • Does taxation affect intrahousehold Distribution? A simulation approach / Olivier Bargain, Nicolas Moreau
  • Social welfare and individual preferences under uncertainty : a questionnaire-experimental approach / Yoram Amiel, Frank Cowell
  • The effects of race, income, mobility and political beliefs on support for redistribution / Steven R. Beckman, Buhong Zheng
  • Spanish economic inequality and gender : a parametric Lorenz dominance approach / Mercedes Prieto-Alaiz
  • Social exclusion mobility in Spain, 1994-2001 / Ambra Poggi
  • Latent vs. Fuzzy methodology in multidimensional poverty analysis / Jesús Pérez-Mayo
  • Introduction / John A. Bishop, Yoram Amiel