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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455531203321

Titolo

Inequality and opportunity [[electronic resource] ] : papers from the second ECINEQ Society meeting / / edited by John Bishop, Buhong Zheng

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, : Emerald Group Publishing, 2008

ISBN

1-280-77309-X

9786613683861

1-84855-135-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (351 p.)

Collana

Research on economic inequality, , 1049-2585 ; ; v. 16

Altri autori (Persone)

BishopJohn A

ZhengBuhong

Disciplina

339.2

Soggetti

Income distribution

Educational equalization

Electronic books.

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.

Nota di contenuto

Inequality and Opportunity: Papers from The Second Ecineq Society Meeting; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Equal liberties and the resulting optimum income distribution and taxation; Macrojustice; Equal economic liberty; Will the gamble be individual or for the entire groupquest; Equivalent properties and normative meanings; An empirical illustration; Real gains, incentive compatibility; Information, degree of redistribution, public finance; Comparison with the other economic and ethical theories; Normative aspects; Notes

Bonferroni absolute index and De Vergottini absolute index as deprivation measures8References; Tests of welfarism for macrojustice; An empirical illustration. European Union 2000; Multidimensional labour, non-linear production; Unemployment; Inequality and envy; Introduction; The approach; Absolute measures; Relative measures; Discussion; Notes; Acknowledgment; References; Interdependent preferences in the design of equal-opportunity policies; Introduction; The model; The mechanisms; An illustration: equal-opportunity



policies for health care; Discussion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References

Higher education and equality of opportunity in ItalyIntroduction; Equality of educational opportunities; The empirical analysis: equality of opportunity in the Italian higher education system; Concluding remarks; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Inequality of opportunity for income in five countries of Africa; Introduction; The measurement and analysis of inequality of opportunity; Data and variables construction; Results: differences in inequality of opportunity for income; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References

: Decomposition of inequality of opportunity indexes using the log-linear modelEqualizing income versus equalizing opportunity:a comparison of the United States and Germany; Introduction; Preferences for redistribution; Framework; Estimating the income-generating process; Measuring unfairness; The egalitarian equivalent and conditional egalitarian fair income: a robustness analysis; Concluding remarks; Notes; Acknowledgment; References; Intergenerational income inequality and dynastic poverty persistence: Germany and the United States compared; Introduction; Database and sample organization

MethodologyEmpirical results; Conclusions; Note; Acknowledgments; References; Measuring inequality with ordinal data: a note; Introduction; Ranking health distributions; Concluding remarks; Notes; References; Multidimensional unit- and subgroup-consistent inequality and poverty measures: some characterizations; Introduction; Multidimensional unit-consistent inequality measures; Multidimensional unit-consistent poverty measures; Concluding remarks; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Rankings of income distributions: a note on intermediate inequality indices; Introduction

Unit-consistency and intermediate inequality measures

Sommario/riassunto

Contains a selection of thirteen papers from the Second Biannual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Berlin, July, 27. This work covers topics including welfare analysis with ordinal data, unit consistency and multidimensional ine