1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451221403321

Titolo

Poverty and the law / / edited by Peter Robson and Asbjørn Kjønstad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford [England] ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2001

ISBN

1-84113-191-1

1-4725-6230-5

1-281-04199-8

9786611041991

1-84731-317-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Onati international series in law and society

Disciplina

344.0325

Soggetti

Poor laws

Poverty

Social legislation

Social policy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Contains papers produced from a workshop held in 1997 at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Onati, Spain, organized by the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Poverty and the Law. INTRODUCTION: 1. The Rights of the Poor: Conceptual Issues -- THE  EXPERIENCE  OF  POVERTY: 2. The Law and the Poor: Institutional Support and Economic Need in Italy ; 3. Strategies for Police Accountability and Community Empowerment -- STRATEGIES  TO  CONFRONT  POVERTY: 4. Poverty, Social Exclusion and the Impact of Selected Legal Measures against Caste Discrimination in South Asia ; 5. Disability and Poverty in the United Kingdom -- ACCESS  TO  JUSTICE  FOR  THE  POOR: 6. The Development of the Notion of Poverty and the Equal Protection Clauses: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and the United States ; 7. Substantive Justice and Procedural Fairness in Social Security: The UK Experience -- OVERVIEWS: 8. The Rule of Law and Poverty Reduction: Some Issues ; 9. An Army of Ideas: Marginalisation, Indigenous Rights and Civil Society in Mexico since the Zapatista Rebellion.



Sommario/riassunto

"This collection of essays focuses attention on the global impact of legal policies on levels of poverty.  They illustrate the distinct dimensions of poverty in a range of different political and cultural settings and also show how poverty is exacerbated by quite discrete local cultural factors in some instances. There is,nonetheless a universal element which runs through all the contributions. The fate of those who are disadvantaged in society depends crucially on their access to goods through the world of work. Thus gender, ethnic background or disability can result in individuals having a much higher chance of experiencing poverty than those outwith these groups and the success of these groups in achieving a measure of prosperity is bound up with a multiplicity of geographical and political factors. This book is part of the Oñati International Series in Law and Society."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830351403321

Autore

Kleiber Christian <1966->

Titolo

Statistical size distributions in economics and actuarial sciences [[electronic resource] /] / Christian Kleiber, Samuel Kotz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, 2003

ISBN

1-280-36604-4

9786610366040

0-470-24806-8

0-471-45716-7

0-471-45717-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Collana

Wiley series in probability and statistics

Altri autori (Persone)

KotzSamuel

Disciplina

330.015195

339.2/2

339.22

Soggetti

Distribution (Economic theory)

Economies of scale

Economics, Mathematical

Insurance - Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Statistical Size Distributions in Economics and Actuarial Sciences; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Our Aims; 1.2 Types of Economic Size Distributions; 1.3 Brief History of the Models for Studying Economic Size Distributions; 1.4 Stochastic Process Models for Size Distributions; 2 General Principles; 2.1 Some Concepts from Economics; 2.2 Hazard Rates, Mean Excess Functions, and Tailweight; 2.3 Systems of Distributions; 2.4 Generating Systems of Income Distributions; 3 Pareto Distributions; 3.1 Definition; 3.2 History and Genesis; 3.3 Moments and Other Basic Properties

3.4 Characterizations3.5 Lorenz Curve and Inequality Measures; 3.6 Estimation; 3.7 Empirical Results; 3.8 Stoppa Distributions; 3.9 Conic Distribution; 3.10 A ""Log-Adjusted" Pareto distribution; 3.11 Stable Distributions; 3.12 Further Pareto-Type Distributions; 4 Lognormal Distributions; 4.1 Definition; 4.2 History and Genesis; 4.3 Moments and Other Basic Properties; 4.4 Characterizations; 4.5 Lorenz Curve and Inequality Measures; 4.6 Estimation; 4.7 Three- and Four-Parameter Lognormal Distributions; 4.8 Multivariate Lognormal Distribution; 4.9 Empirical Results

4.10 Generalized Lognormal Distribution4.11 An Asymmetric Log-Laplace Distribution; 4.12 Related Distributions; 5 Gamma-Type Size Distributions; 5.1 Generalized Gamma Distribution; 5.2 Gamma Distribution; 5.3 Log-Gamma Distribution; 5.4 Inverse Gamma (Vinci) Distribution; 5.5 Weibull Distribution; 5.6 Log-Gompertz Distribution; 6 Beta-Type Size Distributions; 6.1 (Generalized) Beta Distribution of the Second Kind; 6.2 Singh-Maddala Distribution; 6.3 Dagum Distributions; 6.4 Fisk (Log-Logistic) and Lomax Distributions; 6.5 (Generalized) Beta Distribution of the First Kind

7 Miscellaneous Size Distributions7.1 Benini Distribution; 7.2 Davis Distribution; 7.3 Champernowne Distribution; 7.4 Benktander Distributions; Appendix A Biographies; A.1 Vilfredo Federico Domaso Pareto, Marchese di Parigi; A.2 Rodolfo Benini; A.3 Max Otto Lorenz; A.4 Corrado Gini; A.5 Luigi Amoroso; A.6 Raffaele D'Addario; A.7 Robert Pierre Louis Gibrat; A.8 David Gawen Champernowne; Appendix B Data on Size Distributions; Appendix C Size Distributions; List of Symbols; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

A comprehensive account of economic size distributions around the world and throughout the years In the course of the past 100 years, economists and applied statisticians have developed a remarkably diverse variety of income distribution models, yet no single resource convincingly accounts for all of these models, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses, similarities and differences. Statistical Size Distributions in Economics and Actuarial Sciences is the first collection to systematically investigate a wide variety of parametric models that deal with income, wealth, and related notions.<p