"Contains a selection of papers from the Second Biannual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Berlin, July 2007"--P. ix. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Equal liberties and the resulting optimum income distribution and taxation / Serge-Christophe Kolm -- Inequality and envy / Frank Cowell and Udo Ebert -- Interdependent preferences in the design of equal-opportunity policies / Juan D. Moreno-Ternero -- Higher education and equality of opportunity in Italy / Vito Peragine and Laura Serlenga -- Inequality of opportunity for income in five countries of Africa / Denis Cogneau and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps -- Equalizing income versus equalizing opportunity : a comparison of the United States and Germany / Ingvild Almås -- Intergenerational income inequality and dynastic poverty persistence : Germany and the United States compared / Veronika V. Eberharter -- Measuring inequality with ordinal data : a note / Buhong Zheng -- Multidimensional unit- and subgroup-consistent inequality and poverty measures : some characterizations / Henar Díez, Ma. Casilda Lasso de la Vega and Ana Urrutia -- Rankings of income distributions : a note on intermediate equality indices / Coral del Río and Olga Alonso-Villar -- The Bonferroni, Gini, and de Vergottini indices, inequality, welfare, and deprivation in the European Union in 2000 / Elena Bárcena and Luis J. Imedio -- On various ways of measuring unemployment, with applications to Switzerland / Joseph Deutsch, Yves Flückiger and Jacques Silber -- Income mobility in Argentina / Luis Beccaria and Fernando Groisman -- Risk level and inequality preference / Liema Davidovitz.
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