{"title":"Inequality: recent American perspectives","authors":"Robert A. Griffin","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(97)80007-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0926-6437(97)80007-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"7 1","pages":"Pages 109-119"},"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)80007-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80714487","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":"Consumption, income distribution and taxation: Keynes' fiscal policy","authors":"Steven Pressman","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(97)80003-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0926-6437(97)80003-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The <em>General Theory</em> argued that income distribution affected consumption. Greater income equality put more money into the hands of people with higher MPCs, leading to increased consumption; and greater inequality had the reverse impact. Yet, of the six objective factors that Keynes identified as affecting consumption, only distribution has failed to become part of mainstream consumption theory. This paper examines the reasons why this is so, and then develops a model incorporating the after-tax distribution into a Keynesian consumption function. Empirical tests of this model find that after-tax income distribution is a significant determinant of consumption.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"7 1","pages":"Pages 29-44"},"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)80003-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86458986","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":"Poverty and income inequality: Markets and governments in the international economy","authors":"Kishor Thanawala","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80045-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80045-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Increases in aggregate national income are not always accompanied by reductions in levels of poverty or by decreases in the magnitudes of Gini coefficients. The Kuznets “Inverted-U” hypothesis (Kuznets, 1955, 1963) was based on statistical data relating to several of the contemporary developed countries. But it seems that a similar inverted-U relationship between per capita income and Gini coefficient may form a viable hypothesis on the global level. If so, economic progress measured in terms of per capita income does not, in practice, result in people having greater freedom because increase in per capita income does not necessarily decrease the level of poverty rate and therefore does not always reduce the constraint imposed by the need to satisfy basic wants. This paper discusses some empirical and normative aspects of global poverty and income distribution and the role that markets and governments play in the international economy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"7 2","pages":"Pages 203-218"},"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)80045-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90003302","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":"Indexes Journal of Income Distribution, 1997, vol.7","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80047-X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80047-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"7 2","pages":"Pages 233-234"},"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)80047-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89991220","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":"Anthony Crosland on equality and state","authors":"D.A Reisman","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80043-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80043-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Anthony Crosland, Oxford economist and Labour Party politician, developed a sophisticated approach to Britain's mixed economy and post-war welfare state in <em>The Future of Socialism</em> and other writings. This paper examines his theory of redistribution and citizenship in order to establish why he assigned to the State the responsibility for producing a greater equality both of opportunity and of outcome than was possible under the free market order. In respect of opportunity, Crosland looked to State education, public housing and income maintenance for the liberation of potential that would make the selective process of competitive capitalism into a genuinely fair race. In respect of the outcome, Crosland wanted to level finishes and not simply starts in the case of wealth, power and culture that were for him the architects of intolerable social distance. The paper concludes with an evaluation of Crosland's theory and proposals.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"7 2","pages":"Pages 161-173"},"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)80043-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90003304","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":"Looking back","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80046-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80046-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"7 2","pages":"Pages 219-232"},"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)80046-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90003303","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":"Whatever happened to the Kuznets curve? Is it really upside down?","authors":"Gerhard Glomm","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(97)80005-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0926-6437(97)80005-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Kuznets (1955) embarked on a research program whose goal was to find the determinants of the long run levels and trends in income inequality and the relationship between income inequality and economic growth. Recently a small body of theoretical work has developed which tries to obtain the inverted U hypothesis as an equilibrium outcome in dynamic general equilibrium model. One of the types of general equilibrium models which can deliver a Kuznets curve is a model which allows for persistent migration out of one sector, e.g. agriculture, into another—e.g., manufacturing. Most industrialized countries have not only experienced shifts from agriculture to manufacturing, but also into services, especially associated with information technologies. This is responsible for the rise in inequality. If such a model of the arrival of new opportunities is correct, we would not expect to find a Kuznets curve, right side up or up-side down. Here we review the empirical evidence regarding the Kuzuets curve.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"7 1","pages":"Pages 63-87"},"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)80005-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76725584","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":"Asymptotically distribution-free statistical test for generalized lorenz curves: An alternative approach","authors":"Kuan Xu","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(97)80004-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0926-6437(97)80004-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A generalized Lorenz (GL) curve differs from a Lorenz curve in that the former is a rescaled version of the latter. A GL curve represents the relationship between the average income computed from a cumulative percentage of the population and the corresponding cumulative percentage. GL dominance is a useful criterion for ranking GL curves either for an economy over time or for a number of economies at one point in time. Relative to a dominated GL curve, a dominating GL curve indicates both that total income for the population is higher and that it is more equally distributed. Hence, it is obviously more desirable in a certain social sense. While sound statistical tests are essential for making statistical inference about GL dominance from sample GL curve estimates, the lack of a suitable joint test procedure for GL dominance is an unsolved problem in income distribution literature. This paper aims at solving this problem and provides an illustrative empirical example to show how to apply this test procedure in empirical research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"7 1","pages":"Pages 45-62"},"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)80004-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84593801","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":"Distributional inequality in Indian states","authors":"Padmaja Mishra, Ashok Parikh","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(97)80006-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0926-6437(97)80006-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In regional economic policies, equity issues are usually dealt with at the inter-regional level by concentrating on the disparities between regional mean incomes. This paper looks at an extra dimension of inter-regional disparity, that is the disparity among seventeen regions (Indian states) with regard to intra-state inequality. Variation in intra-state inequalities has been studied by using a parametric measure of the Gini coefficient. The parametric approach has facilitated some further statistical tests on the heterogeneity of the Lorenz curves. Dissimilarity among the states with regard to intra-state distributions has led us to look into rural-urban disparity within the states.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"7 1","pages":"Pages 89-108"},"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)80006-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90664181","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":"Anthony Crosland on equality and state","authors":"D. Reisman","doi":"10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80043-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-6437(99)80043-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100788,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution","volume":"50 1","pages":"161-173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79416807","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}