Income Distribution Includes CD

by Campano, Fred; Salvatore, Dominick

• ISBN13: 9780195300918
• ISBN10: 0195300912
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-02
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Income Distribution was written primarily as a textbook intended forundergraduate economics majors. The material, however, is treated withsufficient rigor to meet the needs of first year graduate students also. Thebook may also serve the needs of sociologists and political scientists who areprimarily interested in the related social justice topics of income inequalityand poverty. Each chapter is logically connected with the preceding chapters,providing a general overview of income distribution and its applications.

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(11)
The Income Concept	14	(10)
The Income Density Function	24	(9)
Goodness of Fit	33	(11)
Alternative Income Density Models	44	(14)
Income Distribution Summary Measures	58	(13)
Income Inequality	71	(15)
Poverty	86	(9)
Country Comparisons	95	(10)
Economic Development and Income Distribution	105	(12)
Growth and Poverty in a Globalizing World	117	(10)
Redistribution of Income	127	(10)
Integrating Macroeconomic Models with Income Distribution Models	137	(16)
Appendix I: Quintiles Shares and Upper Decile Share of Income---Per Capita Income Given in 1990 U.S. Dollars	153	(5)
Appendix II: United States: Historical Shares of Income by Quintile of Household	158	(2)
Appendix III: Software Instructions	160	(5)
References	165	(6)
Name Index	171	(2)
Subject Index	173