Income and wealth distribution, inequality and poverty : proceedings of the second International Conference on Income Distribution by Size, Generation, Distribution, Measurement, and Applications, held at the University of Pavia, Italy, September 28-30, 1

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 social accounting matrix (SAM) in the analysis of the functional and personal distribution of income and the family income multiplier, the study of the source and reliability of income distribution data, the decomposition of income inequality measures, the asymptotic distributions and inferential analysis of income inequalities, and an inquiry on the income distribution and income inequality of Eastern European Countries under socialism. New models on income and wealth distribution are specified and their corresponding properties and goodness of fit are discussed. A multivariate approach to the measurement of poverty is developed and applied, and a compact survey of the literature is presented. The book can be used as a text in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses dealing with the theory, model specifications, methods and applications of income and wealth distribution, income inequality and poverty assessment in measurement and the use of SAMs in the analysis of income distribution. Front Matter....Pages I-XIII Generation And Properties Of Income Distribution Functions....Pages 1-17 A New Model Of Income Distribution: The Pareto-Lognormal Distribution....Pages 18-32 A New Model For Income Size Distributions....Pages 33-41 A Model Of Net Wealth Distribution Specified For Negative, Null and Positive Wealth. A Case Study: Italy....Pages 42-56 Income Distribution And The Structure Of The Economic System: A SAM Approach....Pages 57-71 Income Multipliers In The Household Institutional Sector....Pages 72-93 Concentration Curves And Concentration Indexes Derived From Them....Pages 94-110 On The Behaviour of the Z p Concentration Curve....Pages 111-127 Costituent Elements of the Mean Deviations And Of The Mean Difference And Concentration Scheme....Pages 128-148 Asymptotic Distributions of Indices of Concentration: Empirical Verification and Applications....Pages 149-170 A Note On Inequality Measures And The Pigou-Dalton Principle Of Transfers....Pages 171-182 A Comparison Of The Traditional Estimators Of The Parameter α Of The Pareto Distribution....Pages 183-193 Comparisons Among Concentration Curves And Indexes In Some Empirical Distributions....Pages 194-214 Ordinal Decomposition Of Inequality Measures In Case Of Dagum Distributions....Pages 215-227 The Bonferroni Index Of Income Inequality....Pages 228-242 Social Evaluation Criteria....Pages 243-253 Global Indicators of Poverty....Pages 254-271 A Fuzzy Approach To The Measurement Of Poverty....Pages 272-284 Consumer Expenditures In The United States: Survey Description And Distributional Analyses....Pages 285-300 Recent Developments In Estimating The Distribution Of Income In The United States....Pages 301-310 Wealth Of Married Couples....Pages 311-325 Housing Assets In The Bank of Italy’s Survey Of Household Income And Wealth....Pages 326-334 Research On Income Distribution By Size In Poland....Pages 335-351 Analysis Of Family Expenditures By Les And Qes....Pages 352-360 Statistical Matching Of Different Source....Pages 361-374 Recent Analyses On The Distributive Impact Of Public Budget In Italy....Pages 375-388 Distributional And Redistributional Processes In Soviet-Type Economies And The Distributional Impact of Institutional Change....Pages 389-403 Effects of Income Inequality on Aggregate Consumption....Pages 404-415 Provides an up-to-date theoretical discussion with applications of the issue of income distribution models, income inequality measurement, decomposition and inference, and the basic issue of the source and reliability of income and wealth distribution statistics.