Advances on Income Inequality and Concentration Measures Book

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Pt. I Introduction 1

1 Editors' introduction Gianni Betti Betti, Gianni Achille Lemmi Lemmi, Achille 3

2 The Lorenz curve: evergreen after 100 years Barry C. Arnold Arnold, Barry C. 12

3 Gini, deprivation and complaints Frank A. Cowell Cowell, Frank A. 25

Pt. II Theory and methods 45

4 Evaluating dominance ranking of PSID incomes by various household attributes Esfandiar Maasoumi Maasoumi, Esfandiar Almas Heshmati Heshmati, Almas 47

5 Indices and tests for alienation based upon Gini type and distributional overlap measures Gordon Anderson Anderson, Gordon 70

6 Measuring relative equality of concentration between different income/wealth distributions Quentin L. Burrell Burrell, Quentin L. 86

7 Information matrices for some bivariate Pareto distributions Samuel Kotz Kotz, Samuel 105

8 On Lorenz preorders and opportunity inequality in finite environments Ernesto Savaglio Savaglio, Ernesto Stefano Vannucci Vannucci, Stefano 117

Pt. III Inequality decomposition 129

9 Inequality decomposition, directional economic distance, metric distance, and Gini dissimilarity between income distributions Camilo Dagum Dagum, Camilo 131

10 On the Shapley value and the decomposition of inequality by population subgroups with special emphasis on the Gini index Joseph Deutsch Deutsch, Joseph Jacques Silber Silber, Jacques 161

11 Analysis of the short-term impact of the Argentine social assistance program 'Plan Jefes Jefas' on income inequality applying the Dagum decomposition analysis of the Gini ratio Hector R. Gertel Gertel, Hector R. Roberto F. Giuliodori Giuliodori, Roberto F. Alejandro Rodriguez Rodriguez, Alejandro 179

12 The Giniunbound: analyzing class inequality with model-based clustering Tim F. Liao Liao, Tim F. 201

Pt. IV Lorenz curve and Gini measures in applied economics 223

13 The Lorenz curve in economics and econometrics Christian Kleiber Kleiber, Christian 225

14 Income inequality and the economic position of women in Norway 1970-2002 Hilde Bojer Bojer, Hilde 243

15 Technological choices under institutional constraints: measuring the impact on earnings dispersion Elisabetta Croci Angelini Angelini, Elisabetta Croci Francesco Farina Farina, Francesco 257

16 Redistributing global income to benefit the poor Yuri Dikhanov Dikhanov, Yuri Michael Ward Ward, Michael 281

17 Inequality aversion, income inequality, and social policy in the US: 1947-1998 Daniel L. Millimet Millimet, Daniel L. Daniel J. Slottje Slottje, Daniel J. Peter J. Lambert Lambert, Peter J. 295

18 Internal migration, household size and income inequality in Turkey Suleyman Ozmucur Ozmucur, Suleyman Jacques Silber Silber, Jacques 324

Index 340