This chapter discusses the formal and informal techniques that are commonly used to give
quantitative answers in the field of distributional analysis. To this end, it covers subjects …

We present an outline of relative distribution methods, with an application to recent changes
in the US wage distribution. Relative distribution methods are a nonparametric statistical …

The skeptical reader might be wondering why the whole subject cannot just be delegated to
a few page references in a standard statistical text. The answer to this is twofold: the special …

The publication of this book is in large part due to the role of Canada's Inter national
Development Research Center (IDRC) in encouraging policy-relevant research in the fields …

In social science research, differences among groups or changes over time are a common
focus of study. While means and variances are typically the basis for statistical methods …

This paper is a review of recent developments of parametric and non-parametric
approaches to decompose inequality by subgroups, income sources, causal factors and …

Income distribution embeds a large field of research subjects in economics. It is important to
study how incomes are distributed among the members of a population in order for example …

We describe a new method of facilitating inequality and poverty analysis of grouped
distributional data by allowing individual income observations to be reconstructed from any …

This paper introduces some relatively simple computational tools for estimating poverty
measures from the sort of data that are typically available from published sources. All that is …

This book deals with the following issues: the analysis, estimation and assessment of
alternatived models of income distribution, the specification and evaluation of income …