Inequality, Redistribution and Mobility.
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- Research on Economic Inequality Series ; v.28 .
- Research on Economic Inequality Series .
Intro -- Half Title Page -- Series Editors Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1: Inequality and Real Income Growth for Middle- and Low-income Households across Rich Countries in Recent Decades -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Measuring Income Inequality and Income Growth Across Rich Countries in Recent Decades -- 3. What Has Happened to Income Inequality? -- 4. Growth in Middle Incomes -- 5. Inequality and Middle-Income Growth -- 6. GDP Growth and Growth in Middle Incomes -- 7. Inequality, Growth and Real Incomes of The Poor -- 8. Sources of Growth for Middle and Lower Incomes and Their Relationship With Gdp Growth -- 9. THE Implications for Monitoring and Promoting Progress -- References -- Chapter 2: Income Redistribution through Taxes and Transfers across OECD Countries -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data, Defining and Measuring Redistribution -- 3. Redistribution in The Tax-Transfer System as a Whole -- 3.1. An Assessment of Levels and Changes in Redistribution -- 3.2. Redistribution Across Different Income Groups -- 3.3. The Impact of Aging and Rising Senior Employment on Measured Changes in Redistribution -- 4. Redistribution in Different Parts of The Tax-Transfer System -- 4.1. The Relative Role of Income Taxes, Social Security Contributions, and Cash Transfers in Reducing Income Inequality, Across OECD Countries and Over Time -- 4.2. The Relative Role of Size of Taxes and Transfers, of Tax Progressivity and of Transfer Targeting in Reducing Income Inequality, Across Oecd Countries and Over Time -- 5. Changes in Redistribution to The Bottom 40% -- 6. Wrapping-Up -- references -- Chapter 3: Measuring Directional Mobility: The Bartholomew and Prais-Bibby Indices Reconsidered -- 1. Introduction, Motivations, and Objectives -- 2. Literature Review -- 3. A New Mobility Ordering. 4. Bartholomew Directional Mobility Indices -- 4.1. Background -- 4.2. Bartholomew Upward Mobility Index -- 4.3. Bartholomew Downward Mobility Index -- 5. An Empirical Illustration -- 5.1. Application of Upward Mobility -- 5.2. Monotonicity, Dominance and UMFSA -- 6. A Bayesian Approach and The Prais-Bibby Index -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: On the Measurement of Multi-Period Income Mobility -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A New Approach to Measuring Multi-Period Mobility -- 2.2. Desirable Properties of a Multi-Period Mobility Index -- 2.3. Multi-Period Mobility Partial Orderings with an Absolute Lorenz Curve -- 2.4. Satisfaction of Other Desirable Properties -- 2.5. Examples of Multi-Period Mobility Indices based on Absolute Inequality Indices -- 2.6. Connection to Previous Measurement Proposals in the Literature -- 2.1. The Basic Setting -- 2.2. Desirable Properties of a Multi-Period Mobility Index -- 2.3. Multi-Period Mobility Partial Orderings with an Absolute Lorenz Curve -- 2.4. Satisfaction of Other Desirable Properties -- 2.5. Examples of Multi-Period Mobility Indices based on AbsoluteInequality Indices -- 2.6. Connection to Previous Measurement Proposals in the Literature -- 2.6.1. The Shorrocks Multi-Period Mobility Indices -- 2.6.2. The Maasoumi and Zandvakili Mobility Indices -- 2.6.3. The Mobility Indices of Tsui (2009) -- 3. An Empirical Application: Multi-Period Mobility in European Countries -- 3.1. Data Description -- 3.2. Results -- 4. Concluding Comments -- References -- Chapter 5: Rising Educational Attainment and Opportunity Equalization: Evidence from France -- Introduction -- 2. Testing The Opportunity Equalizing Effect of Educational Expansion -- 2.1. Estimating the Returns to Educational Expansion -- 2.2. Simulating the Effect of Educational Expansion on the Earnings Distribution. 2.3. Testing Equalization of Opportunity -- 3. Data and Estimation Procedure -- 3.1. Data -- 3.2. Identification and Estimation -- 4. Results -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: Household Size and Poverty -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Poverty and Household Size: The Effect of Having Children -- 3. Data and Descriptive Statistics -- 4. ECONOMETRIC MODEL -- 5. RESULTS -- 6. Simulations -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 7: An Economics-Based Rationale for the Rawlsian Social Welfare Program -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Rawlsian Social Welfare Function -- 3. Aggregate Relative Deprivation -- 4. The Algorithm of Minimizing ARD -- 5. Congruence of The Algorithm With The Rawlsian Social Welfare Program -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: The Measurement of Wage Discrimination with Imperfect Information: A Finite Mixture Approach -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Traditional Empirical Framework -- 3. A Finite Mixture Model to Measure Wage Discrimination -- 4. Empirical Illustration -- 5. Conclusions and Discussion -- REFERENCES.
Research on Economic Inequality's 28th volume provides original research on how inequality is affected by redistribution, growth, mobility and educational opportunities. Additional papers discuss poverty, welfare and wage discrimination.