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" Poverty, inequality and social welfare in Australia "
David Thomas Johnson
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BL
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725764
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b545485
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David Thomas Johnson
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Poverty, inequality and social welfare in Australia\ David Thomas Johnson
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Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag, 1996
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Contributions to economics
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xi, 185 s. : illustrations
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379080942X
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: 9783790809428
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I Concepts and Measurement Issues.- 1. Introduction and Outline.- 2. Units of Analysis.- II Poverty.- 3. Approaches to the Measurement of Poverty.- 4. Development of Indexes of Poverty.- 5. A Survey of Australian Studies of Poverty.- 6. New Estimates of Poverty in Australia.- III Inequality and Social Welfare.- 7. Indexes of Inequality.- 8. Measures of Welfare.- 9. New Estimates of Inequality and Social Welfare in Australia.- IV Concluding Comments.- 10. Summary, Problems and Further Work.- Appendices.- Appendices to Chapter 3.- A3.1 Deriving a composite direct index of deprivation.- A3.2 Hagenaars' derivation of a consensus based poverty line.- Appendices to Chapter 4.- A4.1 Derivation of Sen's index.- A4.2 Proof of axiomatic properties of the deprivation weighted index of poverty.- A4.3 An approximation used in poverty index decomposition.- A4.4 Proof of an interpretation of the decomposition of Sen-type indexes.- Appendices to Chapter 6.- A6.1 Data sources and preparation.- A6.2 Estimation of a new set of equivalence scales for Australia.- A6.3 Confidence boundaries for survey results.
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HV700.A8D385 1996
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