Economic well-being and inequality : papers from the Fifth ECINEQ meeting / edited by John A. Bishop, Juan Gabriel Rodríguez. .

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bishop, John A.

Rodríguez, Juan Gabriel.

Series:

Research on economic inequality ; v. 22.

Research on economic inequality, 1049-2585 ; v. 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (520 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

West Yorkshire, England : Emerald, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Research on economic inequality, volume 22 begins with papers of widespread interest on the impact of the Great Recession. The first paper addresses the impact of asset meltdown on the wealth of the US middle class, with disparate racial and ethnic impacts. The second studies poverty and inequality in the US in the aftermath of the Great Recession.The next topic is on the evolution of poverty and inequality in the world. One paper proposes a new methodology to measure global poverty and inequality, while the second analyzes the importance of considering not only the desperately poor but also those just above the subsistence level. Great interest for inequality researchers lies on the use of wealth data. Two approaches to this issue are presented. Firstly, several papers study wealth inequality directly. Secondly, a paper uses annuitized wealth data to augment the income measure of economic well-being. An emerging field in the study of economic well-being is the use of self-reported status and perceptions data. Three papers employ this type of data, investigating happiness inequality, perception of income inequality, and the existence of a Great Gatsby Curvé for job mobility.

Contents:

The asset price meltdown and household wealth over the great recession in the United States / Edward N. Wolff

Cross-national differences in wealth portfolios at the intensive margin: is there a role for policy? / Karina Doorley, Eva Sierminska

The decomposition of well-being dimensions : an application to Germany / Jürgen Faik, Uwe Fachinger

On the estimation of the global income distribution using a parsimonious approach / Vanesa Jordá, José María Sarabia, Faustino Prieto

Poverty has declined, but what about the burden of non-extreme poverty? Generalized dominance criteria for convex subsets within the poverty domain / Florent Bresson

Are mass media and ICTs associated with inequality and poverty? / Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

Socioeconomic inequality in happiness in the / Shiyi Chen, Buhong Zheng

Cross-country intergenerational status mobility : is there a Great Gatsby curve? / John A. Bishop, Haiyong Liu, Juan Gabriel Rodríguez

Perception of income inequality : a multidimensional scaling study / Barbara Jancewicz

Polarization of time and income : a multidimensional analysis for Germany / Joachim Merz, Bettina Scherg

On the measurement of regional convergence in inequality and welfare / Adelaide P.S. Duarte ... [et al.]

Regional income convergence in Portugal (1991-2002) / Gertrudes Guerreiro

Inequality, welfare and order statistics / Encarnación M. Parrado-Gallardo, Elena Bárcena-Martín, Luis J. Imedio-Olmedo

On the measurement of intermediate inequality : a dominance criterion for a ray-invariant notion / Francisco Azpitarte, Olga Alonso-Villar

Wage distributions and the accounting period : an assessment of the Shorrocks effect / Carsten Schröder

Tournaments and superstar models : a mixture of two Pareto distributions / Abdoul Aziz Junior Ndoye, Michel Lubrano

Determinants of active income inequality for non-wage earners in Cameroon / Simon Alain Song Ntamack.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781783505562

1783505567

OCLC:

899008985