Income and Wealth Distribution, Inequality and Poverty: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Income Distribution by Size: Generation,

ISBN-13: 9783540528630 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 415 str.

Camilo Dagum; Michele Zenga

Opis

Provides an up-to-date theoretical discussion with applications of the issue of income distribution models, income inequality measurement, decomposition and inference, and the basic issue of the source and reliability of income and wealth distribution statistics.

Spis treści

I Models of Income and Wealth Distribution, Specification and Estimation.- Generation And Properties Of Income Distribution Functions.- A New Model of Income Distribution: The Pareto - Lognormal Distribution.- A New Model For Income Size Distributions.- A Model Of Net Wealth Distribution Specified For Negative, Null and Positive Wealth. A Case Study.- II Causal Structure of Income and Wealth Distribution.- Income Distribution And The Structure Of The Economic System: A SAM Approach.- Income Multipliers In The Household Institutional Sector.- III Theory and Applications of Concentration Curves and Measures.- Concentration Curves And Concentration Indexes Derived From Them.- On The Behaviour Of The Zp Concentration Curve.- Costituent Of The Mean Deviations And Of The Mean Difference And Concentration Scheme.- Asymptotic Distributions Of Indices Of Concentration: Empirical Verification And Applications.- A Note On Inequality Measures And The Pigou - Dalton Principle Of Transfers.- A Comparison Of The Traditional Estimators Of The Parameter ? Of The Pareto Distribution.- Comparison Among Concentration Curves And Indexes In Some Empirical Distributions.- IV The Decomposition Of Income Inequality Measures.- Ordinal Decomposition Of Inequality Measures In Case Of Dagum Distributions.- The Bonferroni Index Of Income Inequality.- V Social Welfare, Poverty and Inequality.- Social Evaluation Criteria.- Global Indicators Of Poverty.- A Fuzzy Approach To The Measurement Of Poverty.- VI Statistical Surveys and Case Studies of Income, Expenditures and Wealth Distributions.- Consumer Expenditures In The United States: Survey Description And Distributional Analyses.- Recent Developments In Estimating The Distribution Of Income In The United States.- Wealth Of Married Couples.- Housing Assets In The Bank Of Italy’s Survey Of Household Income And Wealth.- Research On Income Distribution By Size In Poland.- Analysis Of Family Expenditures By LES And QES.- Statistical Matching Of Different Source.- Recent Analyses On The Distributive Impact Of Public Budget In Italy.- Distributional And Redistributional Processes In Soviet - Type Economies And The Distributional Impact Of Institutional Change.- Effects Of Income Inequality On Aggregate Consumption.