This paper points out the main e1ements under analysis in a study aimed at bringing out the relevant causes of inflation in each kind of economic structure. Thus, it stresses the necessity of a direct answer to questions like when, where, why and how an inflationary process is generated as well...

Dagum and Slottje (2000) estimated household human capital (HC) as a latent variable (LV) and proposed its monetary estimation by means of an actuarial approach. This paper introduces an improved method for the estimation of household HC as an LV by means of formative and reflective indicators...

Se presentan y analizan los índices de desigualdad de Gini, de Atkinson y de la entropía generalizada. Para este último se estudian los casos particulares de Theil y de Bourguignon. Se discuten los méritos de cada uno de dichos índices desde el punto de vista del cumplimiento de propiedades...

This book deals with the following issues: the analysis, estimation and assessment of alternatived models of income distribution, the specification and evaluation of income inequality measures the analysis and measurement of poverty and its rationale, the scope and methodological power of the...