Income and Wealth Distribution, Inequality and Poverty: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Income Distribution by Size: Generation, Distribution, Measurement and Applications, Held at the University of Pavia, Italy, September 28-30, 198

by Camilo Dagum (Editor), Michele Zenga (Editor)

Overview

This book deals with the following issues: the analysis, estimation and assessment of alternatived models of income distribution, the specification and evaluation of income inequality measures the analysis and measurement of poverty and its rationale, the scope and methodological power of the social accounting matrix (SAM) in the analysis of the functional and personal distribution of income and the family income multiplier, the study of the source and reliability of income distribution data, the decomposition of income inequality measures, the asymptotic distributions and inferential analysis of income inequalities, and an inquiry on the income distribution and income inequality of Eastern European Countries under socialism. New models on income and wealth distribution are specified and their corresponding properties and goodness of fit are discussed. A multivariate approach to the measurement of poverty is developed and applied, and a compact survey of the literature is presented. The book can be used as a text in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses dealing with the theory, model specifications, methods and applications of income and wealth distribution, income inequality and poverty assessment in measurement and the use of SAMs in the analysis of income distribution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540528630
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	11/16/1990
Series:	Studies in Contemporary Economics
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
Pages:	415
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

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.- HousingAssets 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.