{"title":"Miracle Cure: How to Solve America's Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn't the Answer, by Sally C. Pipes","authors":"Richard W. Johnson","doi":"10.5860/choice.42-5310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.42-5310","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"29 1","pages":"183-186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75470045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial Convergence in Height in East-Central Europe, 1890-1910","authors":"M. Brabec, J. Komlos","doi":"10.5282/UBM/EPUB.1358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5282/UBM/EPUB.1358","url":null,"abstract":"We examine spatial convergence in biological well-being in the Habsburg Monarchy circa 1890-1910 on the basis of evidence on the physical stature of 21-year-old recruits disaggregated into 15 districts. We find that the shorter was the population in 1890 the faster its height grew thereafter. Hence, there was convergence in physical stature between the peripheral areas of the monarchy (located in today's Poland/Ukraine, Romania, and Slovakia) and the core (located in today's Austria, Czech Republic, and Hungary). The difference between the trend in the height of the Polish district of Przemysl and the Viennese trend was about 0.9 cm per decade in favor of the former. But the convergence among the core districts themselves was minimal or non-existent, whereas the convergence among the peripheral districts was more pronounced. Hence, spatial convergence took place exclusively within the peripheral areas, and between the peripheral regions and the more developed ones. The pattern is somewhat reminiscent of modern findings on convergence clubs in the global economy. However, the East-Central European pattern was the reverse of this modern finding: heights converged to the levels of the developed regions, but did not converge among the more developed regions themselves.","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"99 1","pages":"90-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72895172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of wages on job tenure","authors":"Juha Kettunen","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00011-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00011-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this article, the effect of wages on the job tenure is studied using microeconomic data on industrial companies. The data cover a period of 11 years starting from the first quarter of 1980 and contain several pieces of information on workers, jobs, and companies. The models were estimated in a competing risk framework. According to the results the wage groups of the workers and relative wage within a company are positively related to the job tenure. These effects are larger among the persons who leave the industry than among the persons who find new industrial jobs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"9 2","pages":"Pages 155-169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00011-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74643825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subject Index Journal of Income Distribution, 2000, Vol. 9","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00008-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00008-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"9 2","pages":"Page 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00008-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136557484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is income a good welfare indicator for Spanish households? A comparison between both distributions","authors":"Inmaculada Garcı́a, José Alberto Molina","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00012-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00012-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper compares the income and welfare distributions of Spanish households, with the objective of determining whether the first is a good indicator of the second. We consider different inequality measures of both adjusted income and welfare. The results show that the income ranking does not represent the welfare ranking of households and, secondly, that monetary inequality is higher than welfare inequality, which gives support to the idea that leisure time has a compensating effect on household welfare.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"9 2","pages":"Pages 171-181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00012-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85070765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Statistical inference for Lorenz curves using simulated critical values","authors":"Saku Aura","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00013-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00013-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper suggests an improvement in the traditional testing procedure of dominance relations associated with empirical Lorenz curves and their generalizations. This improvement is based on simulating the asymptotic distribution of the test statistic. The simulation approach asymptotically dominates the traditional approach since the traditional method for calculating critical values establishes an upper bound for the simulated critical value. A gain in power is demonstrated in the empirical part of the paper dealing with the evolution of the distribution of disposable income in Finland between 1971 and 1994.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"9 2","pages":"Pages 199-213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00013-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87040497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trickling down or fizzling out? Economic performance, transfers, inequality, and low income in Canada","authors":"Myles Zyblock , Zhengxi Lin","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00005-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00005-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines the empirical relationships between economic performance, transfers, and low income among Canadian families, and explores whether these relationships have changed over time. Similar recent studies in the US find a weakening in the negative relationship between economic growth and low income over the past 25 years. Using data extracted from the Canadian Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), we find that improving economic performance reduces the incidence of low income among families in Canada from 1973 to 1995. Government transfers are also found to lift families above the low-income threshold. These results are robust across different family types and for three different measures of low income.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"9 2","pages":"Pages 137-154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00005-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85250685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Macroeconomic variables and income distribution","authors":"Alex Bakker, John Creedy","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00006-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00006-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper presents a method of examining the effects of macroeconomic variables on the personal distribution of income over time. The approach involves modelling the complete distribution of income in each year using a flexible functional form from the generalised exponential family of distributions. The parameters of the distribution are specified as functions of the macroeconomic variables. It is shown how comparative static analyses, involving the modes and Atkinson inequality measures, can be performed. The method is applied to male New Zealand income distribution data for the period 1985–1994. The rate of unemployment is found to be the primary influence on the form of the distribution. Higher unemployment is found to decrease the modal income and increase the Atkinson inequality measure.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"9 2","pages":"Pages 183-197"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00006-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83193823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communication","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00007-X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00007-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"9 2","pages":"Page 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00007-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136557512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Economic Inequality and Income Distribution","authors":"L.F.M. Groot","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00014-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00014-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"9 2","pages":"Pages 215-216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00014-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85417040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}