CONTENTS
List of Contributors = xi
Acknowledgements = xv
Foreword / Amartya Sen = xvii
Introduction : Thirty Years of Intensive Research on income Inequality / Jacques Silber = 1
1. he Rational Foundations of Income Inequality Measurement / Serge-Christophe Kolm ; Comment : Nripesh Podder = 19
2. Linking the Functional and Personal Distributions of Incomes / Camilo Dagum ; Comment : Michel Marinez ; Christian Morrison = 101
3. Income Inequality Measurement : The Normative Approach / Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert ; David Donaldson ; Comment : john A. Weymark = 163
4. Measuring Inequality : The Axiomatic Approach / Satya R. Chakravarty ; Comment : Udo Ebert = 163
5. The Mathematical foundations of Inequality Analysis / Michel Le Breton ; Comment : Wolfgang Eichborn = 187
6. Stochastic Dominance and Lorenz Curve / Patrick Moyes ; Comment : Shlomo Yitzhaki= 199
7. The Measurement of Income Inequality : Subjective Approach / Yoram Amiel ; Comment : Bermard M. S. Van Praag = 227
8. Income Inequality Measurement : The Statistical Approach / GiovanninM. Girogi ; Comment : Maria-Pia Voctoria-Feser= 245
9. Estimation of Inequality Indices / Frank A. Cowell ; Comment : Achille Lemmi = 269
10. Parametric Approximations of the Lorenz Curve / Hang K. Ryu ; Daniel J. Slottje ; Comment : Joan Esteban = 291
11. Tests of Significance for Lorenz Parial Orders / John A. Bishop ; John P. Formby ; Comment : Joseph L. Gastwirth ; Tapan K. Nayak = 315
12. How Do Income Sources Affect Income Inequality? / Robert I. Lerman ; Comment : Lea Achdut = 341
13. Inequality Decomposition by Population Subgroups and the Analysis of Interdistributional Inequality / Joseph Deutsch ; Jacques Silber ; Comment : Cecilia A. Conrad= 363
14. Multidimensioned Approaches to Welfare Analysis / Frank A. Cowell ; Magda ; Comment : Yves Fluckiger = 405
15. Multidimensioned Approaches to Welfare Anaylsis / Esfandiar Maasoumi ; Comment : Francois Bourguignon = 437
16. Redistributional Effects of Progressive Income Taxes / Peter J. Lambert ; Comment : Andreas Pfingsten = 485
17. Lifetime versus Annual Income Distribution / John Creedy ; Comment : Timothy Smeeding = 513
18. Horizontal Inequality Measurement : A Basic Reassessment / Stephen P. Jenkins ; Peter J. Lambert ; Comment : Robert D. Plotnick = 535
19 The Measurement of Income Mobility : An Introduction to the Literature / Gary S. Fields ; Efe A. Ok ; Comment : Valentino Dardanoni = 557
20 Inequality, Welfare and Poverty : Three Interrelated Phenomena / Nanak Kakwani ; Comment : Martin Ravallion = 599
Epilogue : Reflections on Income Inequality Measurement / Anthony B. Atkinson = 635
Index = 639
