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Author:   Juan Gabriel Rodríguez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) ,  John A. Bishop (East Carolina University, USA)
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Volume:   28
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9781800430402

ISBN 10:   180043040
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   26 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Inequality and Real Income Growth for Middle and Low-Income Households Across Rich Countries in Recent Decades; Brian Nolan and Stefan ThewissenChapter 2. Income Redistribution through Taxes and Transfers Across OECD Countries; Orsetta Causa and Mikkel Hermansen Chapter 3. Measuring Directional Mobility: The Bartholomew and Prais-Bibby Indices Reconsidered; Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, Nora Lusting and Rodrigo Aranda  Chapter 4. On the Measurement of Multi-Period Income Mobility; Marek Kosny, Jacques Silber and Gaston Yalonetzky Chapter 5. Rising Educational Attainment and Opportunity Equalization: Evidence from France; Francesco Andreoli, Arnaud Lefranc and Vincenzo Prete  Chapter 6. Household Size and Poverty; Alessio Fusco and Nizamul Islam Chapter 7. An Economics-based Rationale for the Rawlsian Social Welfare Program; Oded Stark  Chapter 8. The Measurement of Wage Discrimination with Imperfect Information: A Finite Mixture Approach; Juan Prieto-Rodríguez, Juan Gabriel Rodríguez and Rafael Salas

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Juan Gabriel Rodríguez is a Professor of Economics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and member of EQUALITAS, ICAE and CEDESOG. Previously, he was Head of Research Studies of the Spanish Fiscal Studies Institute (2008-10). His fields of research are inequality, equality of opportunity, economic growth and social welfare. He has published in reviews like Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Development, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Inequality, Social Choice and Welfare, Review of Income and Welfare and Economic Letters. Current research interests include measurement of opportunity, inequality-of-opportunity effects on economic growth, and mobility. John A. Bishop is a Professor of Economics at East Carolina University, USA. He has published more than seventy-five papers on the topics of inequality and poverty. His best known work includes statistical inference for inequality and poverty measures, benefit incidence analysis, tax progressivity analysis, and the inequality effects of alternative public policies. Current research interests include subjective equivalence scales, regional price effects on inequality and poverty, and discrimination. Recent papers appear in the Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Economic Inequality, and the B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy.

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