Advances on Income Inequality and Concentration Measures

Editor's Introduction -- The Lorenz Curve: Evergreen After 100 Years -- Gini, Deprivation, And Complaints -- Theory And Methods -- Evaluating Dominance Ranking Of Psid Incomes By Various Household Attributes -- Indices And Tests For Alienation Based Upon Gini Type And Distributional Overlap Measures -- Measuring Relative Equality Of Concentration Between Different Income/wealth Distributions -- Information Matrices For Some Bivariate Pareto Distributions -- On Lorenz Preorders And Opportunity Inequality In Finite Environments -- Inequality Decomposition -- Inequality Decomposition, Directional Economic Distance, Metric Distance, And Gini Dissimilarity Between Income Distributions -- On The Shapley Value And The Decomposition Of Inequality By Population Subgroups With Special Emphasis On The Gini Index -- Analysis Of The Short Term Impact Of The Argentine Social Assistance Program Plan -- Jefes Y Jefas On Income Inequality Applying The Dagum Decomposition Analysis Of The Gini Ratio -- The Gini Unbound: Analyzing Class Inequality With Model-based Clustering -- Lorenz Curve And Gini Measures In Applied Economics -- The Lorenz Curve In Economics And Econometrics -- Income Inequality And The Economic Position Of Women In Norway 1970 - 2002 -- Technological Choices Under Institutional Constraints: Measuring The Impact On Earnings Dispersion -- Redistributing Global Income To Benefit The Poor -- Inequality Aversion, Income Inequality, And Social Policy In The Us: 1947 - 1998 -- Internal Migration, Household Size And Income Inequality In Turkey. Edited By Gianni Betti And Achille Lemmi. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.