Measuring trends in U.S. income inequality : theory and applications /
This book presents methods for analyzing trends in income inequality over time. The different innovative techniques which the authors have developed for the examination of changes in the size distribution of income, are for the first time described in a consistent and coherent fashion. The methods a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
[1998]
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| Series: | Lecture notes in economics and mathematical systems ;
459. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Maximum Entropy Estimation Method
- Capabilities and Earnings Inequality
- Some New Functional Forms for Approximating Lorenz Curves
- Comparing Income Distributions Using Index Space Representations
- Coordinate Space vs. Index Space Representations as Estimation Methods: An Application to How Macro Activity Affects the U.S. Income Distribution
- A New Methods for Estimating Latent Variables: An Analysis of Hunger.