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- Editors:
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Wolfgang Eichhorn
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Institut für Wirtschaftstheorie und Operations Research Kollegium am Schloß, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany
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Table of contents (54 papers)
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Measurement of Inequality and Poverty
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- Yoram Amiel, Frank A. Cowell
Pages 3-27
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- Satya R. Chakravarty, Wolfgang Eichhorn
Pages 28-32
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- Thesia I. Garner, Klaas de Vos
Pages 33-66
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- Elizabeth Harrison, Christian Seidl
Pages 67-99
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- Hugo Huber, Thomas Spuhler, Arthur Vogt
Pages 100-110
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- Patrick Moyes, Anthony Shorrocks
Pages 162-175
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Taxation and Redistribution
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Front Matter
Pages 207-207
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- Wolfgang Buchholz, Wolfram F. Richter
Pages 237-252
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- Klaus-Jürgen Duschek, Tomas Farken, Manfred Rose
Pages 253-285
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- Hans Haller, Cheng-Chen Yang
Pages 286-298
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About this book
The literature on economic problems connected with measuring and modelling of welfare and inequality has grown rapidly within the last decade. Since this literature is scattered throughout a great number of journals on economics, economic theory, econometrics, and statisties, it is difficult to get an adequate picture of the present state of the art. Therefore books should appear from time to time, which offer a representative cross-section of the latest results of research on: the subject. This book offers such material. It contains 54 articles by 84 authors from four of the five continents. Each paper has been reviewed by two referees. As a conse quence, the contributions of this book are revised versions, or, in many cases, revised revisions of the original papers. The book is divided into four parts. Part I: Measurement of Inequality and Poverty This part contains eleven papers on theory and empirical applications of inequa lity and/or poverty measures. Two contributions deal with, among other things, experimental findings on questions concerning the acceptance of distributional axioms. Part II: Taxation and Redistribution Distributional or, rather, redistributional aspects play an important role in Part II. The topics of the 14 papers included in this part range from tax progressivity and redistribution, allocative consequences of splitting under income taxation, and connections between income tax and cost-of-living indices to merit goods and welfarism as well as to welfare aspects of tax reforms.
Editors and Affiliations
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Institut für Wirtschaftstheorie und Operations Research Kollegium am Schloß, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany
Wolfgang Eichhorn