{"title":"Inequality in property incomes in nineteenth-century Austria","authors":"Michael Pammer","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00016-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00016-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The article examines the distribution of wealth in the alpine lands of the Habsburg Monarchy in the period 1820–1913. A moderate rise in overall inequality from the first to the second half of the period can be observed. This rise is due to sectoral shifts within the society. Inequality between various social groups shows various changes with widening as well as narrowing inequality in the different parts of society. Altogether, the changes in wealth inequality do not support the notion of widening income inequality in the early stages of industrialization in Austria.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"9 1","pages":"Pages 65-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00016-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120598179","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}
F. Modigliani, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, B. Moro, D. Snower, R. Solow, A. Steinherr, S. S. Labini
{"title":"An economists' Manifesto on unemployment in the European Union","authors":"F. Modigliani, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, B. Moro, D. Snower, R. Solow, A. Steinherr, S. S. Labini","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00006-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00006-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"23 1","pages":"327-361"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77830080","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":"Bowley's Law, Technischer Fortschritt und Einkommensverteilung. Eine methodologische, empirische und theoretische Untersuchung der langfristigen funktionalen Einkommensverteilung (Bowley's Law, Technological Progress and Income Distribution. A methodological, empirical and theoretical study of long-term functional distribution of income); Hochsulschriften, Bd. 22; Hagen Kraemer; Metropolis-Verlag, Marburg, 1996, 359 pages, ISBN#0-0202-30504-X, US$55.95 (hardback)/US$27.95 (paperback)","authors":"Roland Eisen","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00005-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00005-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"8 2","pages":"Pages 277-278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00005-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90027513","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":"Decomposing inequality under alternative concepts of resources: Greece 1988","authors":"Theodore Mitrakos , Panos Tsakloglou","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00009-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00009-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The structure of inequality in Greece is analyzed using the information of a survey which contains both consumption and income data. Due to life-cycle factors and measurement errors, the correlation between the two variables is not very high and, hence, an approximation of the “permanent income” of the population members is attempted. Although the level of inequality of the new distribution is substantially lower than the levels of inequality of either the distribution of consumption expenditure or the distribution of disposable income, the structure of inequality in Greece is only slightly affected by the choice of distribution.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"8 2","pages":"Pages 241-253"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00009-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84289877","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":"Population trends, employment levels, economic performance, and income evolution in East and West Germany since unification","authors":"Klaus-Dietrich Bedau","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00008-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00008-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Between 1989 and 1996, former East Germany experienced a population loss of more than 1 million inhabitants as hundreds of thousands of East Germans moved to former West Germany. Population growth in East Germany sank dramatically, since 1995, however, since 1995, this trend has been reversed and today more children are born than in the preceding year.</p><p>The number of gainfully employed East Germans shrank between 1989 and 1993 by 3.5 million. Job loss hit female employees, who in East Germany prior to 1989 formed a part of the job force in proportion to their number, especially hard. In 1994 and 1995, employment increased in the East German states, but job growth did not extend into 1996 as economic growth, which sustained a process of “catching up” with West Germany, failed to maintain its dynamism.</p><p>Economic performance disparity between East and West Germany is very large. Although productivity increased significantly in former East Germany, wage costs outran productivity growth. Per capita income in East Germany in 1991 was 49 percent of per capital income in West Germany and as of 1994 per capita income had reached 66 percent of its West German equivalent.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"8 2","pages":"Pages 207-223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00008-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91721855","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}
Frank A. Cowell, Francisco H.G. Ferreira , Julie A. Litchfield
{"title":"Income distribution in brazil 1981–1990 parametric and non-parametric approaches","authors":"Frank A. Cowell, Francisco H.G. Ferreira , Julie A. Litchfield","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80004-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80004-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We examine changes in the shape of the Brazilian income distribution during the “lost decade” of the 1980s, using a recently available comprehensive micro-data set. We show that income inequality increased during the decade and that average real incomes also increased. We illustrate some of the difficulties involved in modelling income distributions, particularly ones as skewed as that of Brazil, by applying kernel density estimation techniques, and examine separately the upper tail of the distribution by fitting Pareto functions. The shape of the underlying income distribution was transformed in a particularly interesting fashion during the 1980s, becoming flatter and broader throughout the decade. Inequality amongst the rich also increased during the decade with Pareto's α falling between 1981 and 1990.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"8 1","pages":"Pages 63-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80004-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82859471","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":"Social justice and political change: Public opinion in caplitalist and post communist states: by James R. Kluegel, David S. Mason and Bernd Wegener (eds.) New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1995. 359 pp. $55.95 (hardback) $27.95 (paperback). ISBN#00202-30504-X","authors":"S. Pressman","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80010-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80010-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"62 1","pages":"153-155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90324117","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":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00002-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00002-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"8 2","pages":"Pages 281-283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00002-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137347129","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 the Sen-Shorrocks-Thon index of poverty intensity","authors":"Kuan Xu","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80009-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80009-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The proposition of the modified Sen index (the SST index) for measuring poverty intensity represents an important advance in the literature of poverty measures. This index is useful in empirical research on income distribution and poverty because it satisfies a set of desirable properties while the Sen index and some other indices do not. This index is symmetric, monotonic, continuous, homogeneous of degree zero in incomes and the poverty line, and consistent with the transfer axiom. It also admits a useful geometric interpretation. Hence, there is a considerable interest on the part of economists to apply this measure to sample income data in order to draw valid statistical inference about poverty intensity. This paper examines the asymptotic distribution of the SST index estimator, and proposes a useful test for comparing two population SST indices over time or across states. This test can be used for evaluating the deprivation dominance relationship among income distributions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"8 1","pages":"Pages 143-152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80009-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87663653","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":"Dynamics of income inequality in Sweden","authors":"Sourushe Zandvakili , Bjorn Gustafsson","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00007-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00007-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper investigates income inequality among individuals in Sweden overtime using generalized entropy measures in short-run (annual) and long-run (medium term) from 1978 to 1990. The results suggest that short-run inequality tends to decrease with fluctuations, partially due to transitory components. Long-run inequality declines in early years due to smoothing of transitory components. Further decline in long-run inequality is due to actual equalization. Gender, cohort, marital status, and region are used to investigate their implications. Between-group inequality due to gender and cohort are shown to be significant part of inequality. Within-group equalizations are generally more pronounced. Distinct group specific differences are observed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"8 2","pages":"Pages 189-206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00007-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91721854","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}