Inequality and opportunity : papers from the second ECINEQ Society Meeting / edited by John Bishop, Buhong Zheng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Society for the Study of Economic Inequality. Meeting (2nd : 2007 : Berlin, Germany)

Contributor:

Bishop, John A.

Zheng, Buhong.

Series:

Research on economic inequality ; v. 16.

Research on economic inequality ; v. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution--Congresses.

Income distribution.

Poverty--Congresses.

Poverty.

Equality--Congresses.

Equality.

Wealth--Congresses.

Wealth.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, UK : Emerald JAI, 2008.

Contents:

Equal liberties and the resulting optimum income distribution and taxation / Serge-Christophe Kolm

Inequality and envy / Frank Cowell and Udo Ebert

Interdependent preferences in the design of equal-opportunity policies / Juan D. Moreno-Ternero

Higher education and equality of opportunity in Italy / Vito Peragine and Laura Serlenga

Inequality of opportunity for income in five countries of Africa / Denis Cogneau and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps

Equalizing income versus equalizing opportunity : a comparison of the United States and Germany / Ingvild Almås

Intergenerational income inequality and dynastic poverty persistence : Germany and the United States compared / Veronika V. Eberharter

Measuring inequality with ordinal data : a note / Buhong Zheng

Multidimensional unit- and subgroup-consistent inequality and poverty measures : some characterizations / Henar Díez, Ma. Casilda Lasso de la Vega and Ana Urrutia

Rankings of income distributions : a note on intermediate equality indices / Coral del Río and Olga Alonso-Villar

The Bonferroni, Gini, and de Vergottini indices, inequality, welfare, and deprivation in the European Union in 2000 / Elena Bárcena and Luis J. Imedio

On various ways of measuring unemployment, with applications to Switzerland / Joseph Deutsch, Yves Flückiger and Jacques Silber

Income mobility in Argentina / Luis Beccaria and Fernando Groisman

Risk level and inequality preference / Liema Davidovitz.

Notes:

"Contains a selection of papers from the Second Biannual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Berlin, July 2007"--P. ix.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781848551343

1848551347

OCLC:

244768614