Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Economic Well-Being and Inequality: Papers from the Fifth ECINEQ Meeting
3. Copyright page
4. Contents
5. List of Contributors
6. Introduction
7. The Asset Price Meltdown and Household Wealth over the Great Recession in the United States
8. Cross-National Differences in Wealth Portfolios at the Intensive Margin: Is There a Role for Policy?
9. The Decomposition of Well-Being Dimensions: An Application to Germany
10. On the Estimation of the Global Income Distribution Using a Parsimonious Approach
11. Poverty Has Declined, but What about the Burden of Non-Extreme Poverty? Generalized Dominance Criteria for Convex Subsets within the Poverty Domain
12. Are Mass Media and ICTs Associated with Inequality and Poverty?
13. Socioeconomic Inequality in Happiness in the United States
14. Cross-Country Intergenerational Status Mobility: Is There a Great Gatsby Curve?
15. Perception of Income Inequality: A Multidimensional Scaling Study
16. Polarization of Time and Income – A Multidimensional Analysis for Germany
17. On the Measurement of Regional Convergence in Inequality and Welfare
18. Regional Income Convergence in Portugal (1991–2002)
19. Inequality, Welfare, and Order Statistics
20. On the Measurement of Intermediate Inequality: A Dominance Criterion for a Ray-Invariant Notion
21. Wage Distributions and the Accounting Period: An Assessment of the Shorrocks Effect
22. Tournaments and Superstar Models: A Mixture of Two Pareto Distributions
23. Determinants of Active Income Inequality for Non-Wage Earners in Cameroon