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Author: Wolfgang Eichhorn
Date: 19 Jan 2012
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Original Languages: English
Book Format: Paperback::1018 pages
ISBN10: 3642790399
ISBN13: 9783642790393
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Coefficient of variation (CV) This measure of income inequality is calculated the dividing the standard deviation of the income distribution its mean. 17,18 More equal income distributions will have smaller standard deviations; as such, the CV will be smaller in more equal societies. Despite being one of the simplest measures of inequality, use of the CV has been fairly limited in the public health literature and Measure of Economic Welfare (MEW) During the late 1960s, many economists began to question the over-reliance of governments and agencies on narrow, exclusively GDP-based, measures of economic welfare. It was at this time that the adverse environmental effects of uncontrolled economic growth began to be considered, prompting the search for a Through the past few decades the problem of income inequality and welfare the econometric model of regression and correlation was conducted towards The literature on economic problems connected with measuring and modelling of welfare and inequality has grown rapidly within the last decade. Since this literature is scattered throughout a great number of journals on economics, economic theory, econometrics, and statisties, it is difficult to get As a conse quence, the contributions of this book are revised versions, or, in many cases, revised revisions of the original papers. The book is divided into four parts. Part I: Measurement of Inequality and Poverty This part contains eleven papers on theory and empirical applications of inequa lity and/or poverty measures. Two Measurement of Inequality Frank Cowell STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science The Toyota Centre Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines London School of Economics and Political Science Discussion Paper Houghton Street No.DARP/36 London WC2A 2AE July 1998 Tel.: 020-7955 6678 Partially supported an ESRC grant R000235725. I The concept of inequality is distinct from that of poverty and fairness. Income inequality metrics (or income distribution metrics) are used social scientists to measure the distribution of income, and economic inequality among the participants in a particular economy, such as that of a specific country or of the world in general. While different theories may try to explain how income inequality comes about, of likelihood based methods that are fragile under model uncertainty, the corresponding inequality measures, which reflect how European social policy measures to tackle inequalities in health. These were as levels of employment, salary scales and social welfare programmes. New Zealand (70) and England (51) have published models of the determinants of inequalities On the Measurement of Welfare, Happiness and Inequality.Maja Rynko.Thesis submitted for assessment with a view to obtaining the degree of.Doctor of Economics of the European University Institute.Florence, January 2012 Various measures of inequality that have been proposed in the literature are discussed. These fall into two categories: those that measure in some objective sense positive measures that make no explicit use of any concept of social welfare and those that measure in terms of a normative notion of social welfare and the loss incurred from unequal distribution. The characteristics of positive measures are Typical welfare and inequality measurement is required to be Lorenz consistent tention to distributions of equal means, we show that the utilitarian model the The disaggregation approach to welfare, poverty and inequality measurement Eugenio Peluso1 December 2010 1Department of Economics, University of Verona (Italy) Peluso The disaggregation approach to welfare, poverty and inequality measurementDecember 2010 1 / 31. Abstract "It is quite di cult to understand household behavior". Peluso The disaggregation approach to welfare, poverty and single index to measure inequality, such as the coefficient of varia- tion or the Gini find the additive social welfare function a useful model-partly because it is Summary of individual earnings and inequality measures, based on actual and simulated In addition, the authors are not concerned exclusively with economic welfare. May be more pervasive than captured in these economic models. The signal achievement of Hugh Dalton, and Arthur Cecil Pigou, with whom his name is often coupled, was to provide a welfare economic basis for the measurement of income inequality. In 1920 Dalton published the volume Some Aspects of the Inequality of Incomes in Modern Communities (Dalton, 1920b), which extensively surveyed theories explaining income inequality and examined policies The model provides a tool which may contribute to the identification of the most effective actions toward a reduction of economic inequality. We find for instance Get this from a library! Models and measurement of welfare and inequality. [Wolfgang Eichhorn;] - "The literature on economic problems connected with measuring and modelling of welfare and inequality has grown rapidly within the last decade. Since this literature is scattered throughout a great errors models were carried out on 18 countries in the region around 2000, institutions appear to be the pivotal dimension to reduce income inequality and This paper looks into the interrelation between economic growth, inequality, and poverty. Using the Issues related to the benefits of growth accrued to the poor have also Chenery and Ahluwalia's (1974) model of 'redistribution with growth'. Atkinson s inequality measure (or Atkinson s index) This is the most popular welfare-based measure of inequality. It presents the percentage of total income that a given society would have to welfare functions along with the measures of intra-household inequality. In the tradition of collective household models, the efficient allocation of resources.

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