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

• Pubblicazione: Bingley, : Emerald Group Publishing, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (351 p.)
• Disciplina: 339.2
• Soggetto topico: Income distribution; Educational equalization
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BishopJohn A ZhengBuhong
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Inequality and opportunity
• ISBN: 1-280-77309-X; 9786613683861; 1-84855-135-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455531203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Research on economic inequality ; ; v. 16.