Models and Measurement of Welfare and Inequality

I: Measurement of Inequality and Poverty.- Inequality Changes and Income Growth.- Measurement of Income Inequality: Observed Versus True Data.- Income Sufficiency, Expenditures and Subjective Poverty: Results from the United States and The Netherlands.- Acceptance of Distributional Axioms: Experimental Findings.- The Age-Adjusted Inequality Measure of Gini Used to Measure Inequality in Health Care Costs.- A New Compromise Measure of Inequality.- Inequality, Poverty Measurement and Welfare Dominance: An Attempt at Unification.- The Scope of Inequality Coefficients.- Transformations of Stochastic Orderings.- Decomposition of Inequality Measures - Theory and Empirical Application.- On Atkinson's Index and Consensus in Rankings of Income Distributions.- II: Taxation and Redistribution.- Income Tax and Cost-of-Living Indices.- Risk-Taking Behavior and Inflation Adjustment of Personal Income Taxes.- The Analytics of Splitting under Income Taxation.- Welfare Effects of Abolishing the German Business Taxes - An Applied General Equilibrium Analysis.- Welfare or Pareto-Improving Directions of Piecemeal Tax Reform.- Redistribution Through the Income Tax.- Retrieving Inequality Concepts and Progressivity Objectives from Tax Functions via Approximations.- Merit Goods and Welfarism.- Measurement of Tax Progressivity with Nonconstant Income Distributions.- The Taxation of Married Couples in Germany: Distributive and Allocative Aspects.- Income Equality and Income Taxation.- Income Tax Reform in Germany: A Welfare Analysis.- Income Taxes: The Interaction between Government and Labour Unions.- On the Progressivity of Commodity Taxation.- III: Models and Measurement of Welfare.- On the Use of the Distance Function for Measuring Welfare in Quantity Constrained Regimes.- On Interpersonal Comparison and the Concept of Equality.- Welfare Aspects of Consumption Plans.- Public Budgeting and Social Welfare.- On the Uniqueness of Cardinally Interpreted Utility Functions.- The Measurement of

Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Dres.rer.pol.h.c. Wolfgang Eichhorn ist Leiter des Instituts für Wirtschaftstheorie und Operations Research an der Universität Karlsruhe. Autor zahlreicher Veröffentlichungen in internationalen Fachzeitschriften der Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Mathematik, des Operations Research sowie der Versicherungswissenschaft.