Studies on economic well-being essays in the honor of John P. Formby

Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 12 is the outgrowth of University of Alabama Poverty and Inequality conference, May 22-25, 2003. The motivation for the conference was to honor John P. Formby upon his retirement. The conference, funded by the University, was designed to bring together three g...

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Corporate Author University of Alabama Poverty and Inequality conference
Other Authors Bishop, John A., Amiel, Yoram
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2004.
SeriesResearch on economic inequality ; v. 12.
Subjects
Formby, John P.
Income distribution > Congresses.
Poverty > Congresses.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849502924
ISSN1049-2585 ;
DOI10.1016/S1049-2585(2004)12
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 499 p.).

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Table of Contents:
  • Minimum wages, poverty and welfare / John P. Formby, John A. Bishop, Hoseong Kim
  • On intermediate measures of inequality / Buhong Zheng
  • Lorenz decomposition and interdistributional lorenz comparisons / John A. Bishop, K.Victor Chow, Lester A. Zeager
  • Mobility, inequality, and horizontal equity / Shlomo Yitzhaki, Quentin Wodon
  • Evaluating the income redistribution effects of tax reforms in discrete hours models / John Creedy, Guyonne Kalb, Rosanna Scutella
  • Survey reweighting for tax microsimulation modelling / John Creedy
  • Indices of tax progressivity and macroeconomic variables in the U.K. : 1960-2001 / Joseph Deutsch, Jacques Silber, Ben-Zion Zilberfarb
  • Macroeconomic performance and the sen index of poverty : estimates based on state data / Christopher K. Johnson, Hoseong Kim
  • Financial market conditions and income distribution in Japan / Ryoichi Sakano
  • Antitrust enforcement and economic growth / Daniel Slottje
  • Economic well-being based on income, consumer expenditures and personal assessments of minimum needs / Thesia I. Garner, Kathleen S. Short
  • Consumption-based poverty in the United States : new evidence and a test for robustness / Feijun Luo
  • The effect of changes in the real minimum wage on teenage employment evidence from urban-area data / James P. Cover, Hoseong Kim
  • Differences in the determinants of elderly and non-elderly poverty / Gary A. Hoover
  • A dominance analysis of Thailand's regional income distributions, 1992-2000 / Kamol Chumrusphonlert, John P. Formby, John A. Bishop
  • An analysis of differential provincial income inequality trends in Canada / David Gray, Jeffrey A. Mills, Sourushe Zandvakili
  • Adjusting Gini coefficients with quantile regression : Taiwan, 1978-1999 / John A. Bishop, Jong-Rong Chiou, Jessica S.Y. Mai
  • Secular trends in socioeconomic inequality of obesity in the United States / Qi Zhang, Youfa Wang
  • Risk, inequality aversion and biases born of social position : further experimental tests of the leaky bucket / Steven R. Beckman, John P. Formby, W.James Smith, Buhong Zheng
  • Perceptions of inequality and risk / Frank A. Cowell, Guillermo Cruces
  • Introduction / John A. Bishop, Yoram Amiel.

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