{"title":"The Growth in U.S. Male Earnings Inequality: Changing Wage Rates or Working Time","authors":"R. Haveman, L. Buron","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00004-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00004-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"175 1","pages":"255-276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76192078","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","authors":"Steven 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":"8 1","pages":"Pages 153-155"},"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)80010-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91958299","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":"Inequality within and among nations","authors":"Michael C. Lovell","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80002-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80002-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper looks at both within and among country inequality utilizing data for the 82 countries for which comparable data are available from the 1996 <em>World Development Report</em>. In the spirit of Dalton (1920) and Atkinson (1970), this paper reports estimates of the welfare loss arising from inequality. The paper also explores the implications of Duesenberry style interdependent utility functions and evaluates the appropriateness of the Gini coefficient as a possible measure of “relative deprivation”. In 18% of the pairwise comparisons of inequality in different countries, the situation is ambiguous in the sense that neither country Lorenz dominates the other (Shorrocks, 1982). Generalized Lorenz curves leave ambiguous 16% of paired welfare comparisons. The data generated a surprisingly stable empirical result: for <em>any</em> utility function satisfying Dalton's Principle of Proportionality of Transfers, the loss of welfare rising from within country inequality is approximately 40% of the loss caused by inequality among nations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"8 1","pages":"Pages 5-44"},"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)80002-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82104859","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":"On the properties of the fields' index of inequality","authors":"Paolo Figini","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80008-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80008-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper is an assessment of the approach to measure inequality suggested by Gary Fields (1987, 1993). Fields' approach describes the change in inequality which occurs in dual economy models when there is enlargement of the high-income sector. According to Fields, inequality during this growth process initially decreases and then increases, depicting a U-pattern in contrast to the inverted-U pattern described by the other inequality indices. We argue that the index and the axioms proposed by Fields to generate such a pattern cannot be defined Lorenz Consistent. Nevertheless, Fields' approach paves the way towards a new representation of inequality which might be appropriate in a framework where sectors differ in size and income.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"8 1","pages":"Pages 131-141"},"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)80008-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72963803","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":"A note on poverty and gender in Spain","authors":"Antonio Fernández-Morales, Julia de Haro-Garcı́a","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00002-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00002-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article focuses on the gender distribution of poverty in Spain. Our basic objective is determining if poverty is equally shared between men and women. The source of the data is the <em>Encuesta Básica de Presupuestos Familiares 1990–1991</em>. Having analyzed three poverty rates—the head count ratio, the income gap ratio and the normalized income gap ratio, with three poverty lines (25%, 40%, and 50% of the mean) and two income variables (OECD equivalent household income and per capita household income)—it cannot be said that the women are “over-represented” amongst the poor in Spain in 1991.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"8 2","pages":"Pages 235-239"},"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)00002-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84315361","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":"Unemployment in Europe","authors":"Dr. Joep T.J.M. van der Linden","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00010-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-6437(99)00010-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"8 2","pages":"Pages 157-161"},"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)00010-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91721857","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":"Free to choose; returns on investment in education in The Netherlands","authors":"Joop G. Odink, Ruurd Kunnen","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80006-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80006-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the Netherlands expected (marginal) rates of return for 35 educational paths differ strongly, for both different levels and for different subjects within the same level of education. Private rates of return are somewhat larger than social rates; public sector rates are the smallest. They are low compared to other countries. However, rates based on cross section analyses should be low, if the reference interest rate is corrected for expected wage rises.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"8 1","pages":"Pages 93-106"},"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)80006-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91983591","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":"Editorial Poverty and the Human Development Report","authors":"Y.S Brenner","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80001-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80001-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"8 1","pages":"Pages 1-4"},"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)80001-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79200060","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":"The modern theory of the division of labor: Technological imperative or implicit collective choice?","authors":"Kenneth Mischel","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80041-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80041-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>If Adam Smith's theory of development via increasingly specialized divisions of labor constituted neither a complete description of the multivocal processes of industrialization going on around him, nor a unique prescription for technological innovation and economic growth, why did it nevertheless come to occupy an axiomatic status in the modern consciousness? Words come to mean and acts to signify by virtue of the place they occupy within the contexts of practices that in concert comprise a society's forms of life. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to show that the theory gained its “overly-solid” status as the result of the ways in which it became hooked in to emerging conceptions of—serving as a guarantor for—societal order.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"7 2","pages":"Pages 129-146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80041-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80338458","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 growth, income distribution and economic development, theory, methodology and empirical results","authors":"Joop Odink","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(97)80008-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0926-6437(97)80008-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"7 1","pages":"Pages 121-123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0926-6437(97)80008-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82201176","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}