What helps households with children in leaving poverty? Evidence from Spain / Olga Cantó, Coral del Río, Carlos Gradín -- Income inequality in the EU15 and member countries / Angela Trotiño Cobas -- The evolution of economic inequality in the EU countries during the nineties : a new methodological approach / Juana Domínguez-Domínguez, José Javier Núñez-Velázquez -- Welfare, inequality and poverty rankings in the European Union using an inference-based stochastic dominance approach / Ismael Ahamdanech Zarco, Carmelo García Pérez -- Poverty among the elderly : an assessment of the Italian social policies / Daniela Monacelli -- Comparing multidimensional indices of inequality : methods and application / María Ana Lugo -- Decomposing income inequality by population subgroups : a generalization / Joseph Deutsch, Jacques Silber -- Restricted inequality and relative poverty / Jean-Yves Duclos, Paul Makdissi -- Poverty-efficient programme reforms with heterogeneous agents : the role of targeting and allocation rules / Rocio Garcia-Diaz -- Poverty-reducing commodity tax reforms / Alessandro Santoro -- Preferences towards redistribution and equality : how important is social capital? / María A. García-Valiñas, Roberto Fernández Llera, Benno Torgler -- Does taxation affect intrahousehold Distribution? A simulation approach / Olivier Bargain, Nicolas Moreau -- Social welfare and individual preferences under uncertainty : a questionnaire-experimental approach / Yoram Amiel, Frank Cowell -- The effects of race, income, mobility and political beliefs on support for redistribution / Steven R. Beckman, Buhong Zheng -- Spanish economic inequality and gender : a parametric Lorenz dominance approach / Mercedes Prieto-Alaiz -- Social exclusion mobility in Spain, 1994-2001 / Ambra Poggi -- Latent vs. Fuzzy methodology in multidimensional poverty analysis / Jesús Pérez-Mayo -- Introduction / John A. Bishop, Yoram Amiel.

This volume is a collection of papers presented at the first meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ). The Societys aims are to provide an international forum for all researchers interested in the study of economic inequality and related fields, bringing together the diversity of perspectives. The conference was held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain in July 2005. Over eighty parallel sessions were offered, providing novel and interesting work from both mature scholars and as well as new PhDs. With so much quality work from which to choose, it was necessary to limit the scope of Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 14.The first five papers all employ Spanish data and cover topics such as child poverty, social preferences toward redistribution, social exclusion, and multidimensional poverty. The next three papers examine inequality in the EU using alternative methodologies. Chapter Nine explores poverty dynamics among the elderly in Italy. Chapter Ten presents and extends the state of the art in multidimensional inequality measurement. Chapters Eleven and Twelve contribute to the theoretical underpinnings of inequality measurement. Chapters Thirteen through Fifteen contain analytical papers focused on evaluating the effects of public policy on poverty and inequality. The final two chapters use the questionnaire-experimental approach to examine individuals distributional preferences.This book is part of the Research on Economic Inequality series. It presents papers form the inaugural meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ). It provides an international forum for all researchers interested in the study of economic inequality and related fields. It brings together a diversity of perspectives.

Print version record