05534nam 2200685Ia 450 991046251360332120200520144314.01-283-63506-21-78190-171-6(CKB)2670000000270461(EBL)1042694(OCoLC)811578016(SSID)ssj0000746355(PQKBManifestationID)12316244(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000746355(PQKBWorkID)10862722(PQKB)10643154(MiAaPQ)EBC1042694(Au-PeEL)EBL1042694(CaPaEBR)ebr10608586(CaONFJC)MIL394751(EXLCZ)99267000000027046120120827d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrInequality, mobility, and segregation[electronic resource] essays in honor of Jacques Silber /editors, John A. Bishop, Rafael SalasBingley, UK Emerald20121 online resource (439 p.)Research on economic inequality ;v. 20Selected conference papers.1-78190-170-8 Includes bibliographical references.FRONT COVER; INEQUALITY, MOBILITY AND SEGREGATION: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JACQUES SILBER; COPYRIGHT PAGE; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 1 MEASURING SEGREGATION: BASIC CONCEPTS AND EXTENSIONS TO OTHER DOMAINS; INTRODUCTION: ON ''LATERAL THINKING''; BASIC CONCEPTS: MEASURING SEGREGATION WHEN THERE ARE ONLY TWO GROUPS; THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF SEGREGATION; MEASURING SPATIAL SEGREGATION; MEASURES OF ORDINAL SEGREGATION; EXTENSIONS TO OTHER DOMAINS: SEGREGATION AND INEQUALITY IN LIFE CHANCES; CONCLUDING COMMENTS; NOTES; REFERENCESCHAPTER 2 OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION MEASURES: A ROLE FOR STATUSINTRODUCTION; BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION; LOCAL SEGREGATION MEASURES: THE STATUS OF OCCUPATIONS; AN ILLUSTRATION: OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION BY RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE UNITED STATES; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; APPENDIX A: PROOF OF PROPOSITION 1; CHAPTER 3 OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION OF AFRO-LATINOS; INTRODUCTION; DATA; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION OF AFRO-LATINOS IN SELECTED COUNTRIES; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION IN BRAZIL; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCESCHAPTER 4 MULTIGROUP SEGREGATION PATTERNS AND DETERMINANTS: THE CASE OF IMMIGRANTS IN AN ITALIAN CITYINTRODUCTION; DATA: IMMIGRANTS IN VERONA; A MODEL FOR SEGREGATION PATTERNS; RESULTS; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5 EQUAL-EQUIVALENTS FOR INEQUALITY, WELFARE, AND LIBERTY: CONCEPTS AND POLICY; SUMMARY; SITUATION; ORDERING, EQUAL-EQUIVALENTS; WELFARE; MACROJUSTICE; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 6 INFLUENCE FUNCTIONS FOR POLICY IMPACT ANALYSIS; INTRODUCTION; DIRECTIONAL DERIVATIVES OF DISTRIBUTIONAL STATISTICS; INFLUENCE FUNCTIONS AND RECENTERED INFLUENCE FUNCTIONSCONCLUSIONNOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B: DISTRIBUTIONAL STATISTICS AND THEIR RECENTERED INFLUENCE FUNCTIONS IN TABULAR FORM; CHAPTER 7 A NOTE ON MULTIDIMENSIONAL DISTRIBUTION-SENSITIVE POVERTY AXIOMS; INTRODUCTION; NOTATION AND BASIC DEFINITIONS; THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL MONOTONICITY SENSITIVITY AND MINIMAL TRANSFER AXIOMS; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 8 CONVERGENCE CLUB EMPIRICS: EVIDENCE FROM INDIAN STATES; INTRODUCTION; SOME BASIC STATISTICS; THE DISTRIBUTION DYNAMICS APPROACHWHAT EXPLAINS POLARISATION? THE ROLE OF MACRO-ECONOMIC FACTORSCONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; APPENDIX A: STATES USED IN THE STUDY; APPENDIX B: THE DISTRIBUTION DYNAMICS APPROACH; APPENDIX C: CONDITIONING RESULTS; CHAPTER 9 THE EU-WIDE EARNINGS DISTRIBUTION; INTRODUCTION; THE EU-SILC DATA ON EARNINGS; EARNINGS DISTRIBUTIONS IN EU COUNTRIES; THE EU-WIDE DISTRIBUTION OF GROSS EARNINGS; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 10 EARNINGS MOBILITY, EARNINGS INEQUALITY, AND LABOR MARKET INSTITUTIONS IN EUROPE; INTRODUCTION; DATA; METHODOLOGY; CHANGES IN EARNINGS INEQUALITYSHORT-TERM MOBILITY OVER TIME AND ITS LINKS WITH CROSS-SECTIONAL AND SHORT-TERM INEQUALITYThis volume honors the lifetime and continuing contributions of Professor Jacques Silber. The book contains 15 papers, which were presented at the Fourth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Catania, Sicily, July 2011. Theoretical topics covered in Volume 20 include measuring segregation, welfare and liberty, the use of influence functions in distributional analysis, and the axiomatic approach to multidimensional inequality. Empirical studies include occupational and residential segregation, regional convergence, impact of variable of equivalence scales on income inequaResearch on Economic InequalityIncome distributionCongressesDistribution (Economic theory)Electronic books.Income distributionDistribution (Economic theory)339.2339.4Bishop John A614244Salas Rafael949484Silber Jacques147615MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462513603321Inequality, mobility, and segregation2146119UNINA