Models and Measurement of Welfare and Inequality

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I: Measurement of Inequality and PovertyInequality Changes and Income Growth -- Measurement of Income Inequality: Observed Versus True Data -- Income Sufficiency, Expenditures and Subjective Poverty: Results from the United States and The Netherlands -- Acceptance of Distributional Axioms: Experimental Findings -- The Age-Adjusted Inequality Measure of Gini Used to Measure Inequality in Health Care Costs -- A New Compromise Measure of Inequality -- Inequality, Poverty Measurement and Welfare Dominance: An Attempt at Unification -- The Scope of Inequality Coefficients -- Transformations of Stochastic Orderings -- Decomposition of Inequality Measures - Theory and Empirical Application -- On Atkinson’s Index and Consensus in Rankings of Income Distributions -- II: Taxation and Redistribution -- Income Tax and Cost-of-Living Indices -- Risk-Taking Behavior and Inflation Adjustment of Personal Income Taxes -- The Analytics of Splitting under Income Taxation -- Welfare Effects of Abolishing the German Business Taxes - An Applied General Equilibrium Analysis -- Welfare or Pareto-Improving Directions of Piecemeal Tax Reform -- Redistribution Through the Income Tax -- Retrieving Inequality Concepts and Progressivity Objectives from Tax Functions via Approximations -- Merit Goods and Welfarism -- Measurement of Tax Progressivity with Nonconstant Income Distributions -- The Taxation of Married Couples in Germany: Distributive and Allocative Aspects -- Income Equality and Income Taxation -- Income Tax Reform in Germany: A Welfare Analysis -- Income Taxes: The Interaction between Government and Labour Unions -- On the Progressivity of Commodity Taxation -- III: Models and Measurement of Welfare -- On the Use of the Distance Function for Measuring Welfare in Quantity Constrained Regimes -- On Interpersonal Comparison and the Concept of Equality -- Welfare Aspects of Consumption Plans -- Public Budgeting and Social Welfare -- On the Uniqueness of Cardinally Interpreted Utility Functions -- The Measurement of Aggregate Welfare -- The Effect of Relative Price Changes and Cost of Living Adjustments on Some Welfare Indices -- Consumer’s Welfare and Price Uncertainty -- A Reconsideration of Income Compensation Functions in Social Welfare Theory -- EC Integration and the Structure of the Franco-American Airline Industries: Implications for Efficiency and Welfare -- Regulation and Control of Hazardous Wastes: A Welfare-Theoretic Analysis -- Money Metric Measures of Individual and Social Welfare Allowing for Environmental Externalities -- ‘Social Welfare Function’ Measures of Horizontal Inequity -- Commodity Aggregation and Slutsky Asymmetry -- Indices of Welfare for the Economy and Households in Distorted Open Economies -- Resources and Functionings: A New View of Inequality in Australia -- Multidimensional Welfarisms -- Welfare Loss with Intermediate Goods -- Valuing Reductions of Public Risks: The Case of Hazardous Wast -- Harsanyi’s Social Aggregation Theorem with Alternative Pareto Principles -- IV: Models and Measurement Related to Welfare and Inequality -- The Use of Fuzzy Set Techniques in the Context of Welfare Decisions -- Monotonicity and Separability -- Employment Segregation Indices: An Axiomatic Characterization -- Theory and Calculation of Productivity Indexes -- A Model of Interdependent Consumer Behavior: Nonlinear Dynamics in ?2 -- An Impossibility Result Concerning Distributive Justice in Axiomatic Bargaining -- Rational Justice and Equality -- Existence and Stability of Equilibrium in a Multisectoral Model with Quantity Rationing -- Efficient Stationary Capital Accumulation Structures of a Biconvex Production Technology.

10.1007/978-3-642-79037-9 [DOI]

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