Volume 15, Index Issue: December 2006

Table of Contents

Announcement
3
Acknowledgment and Editorial
O. F. Hamouda
4

Articles

Factors of Income Inequality and their Influence Mechanisms: A Review of the Empirical Literature
Anneli Kaasa
9
An Alternative Formulation of the Esteban-Gradín-Ray Extended Measure of Polarization
Ma Casilda Lasso de la Vega, Ana Marta Urrutia
42
Is there a Clearly Identifiable Distribution Function of Individual Poverty Scores?
Valerie Bérenger, Franck Celestini
55
Models for Income based on Bivariate Pareto Distributions
Saralees Nadarajah, Samuel Kotz
78
Trends in Income Distribution in Italy: A Non-Parametric 90 and a Semi-Parametric Analysis
Maria Grazia Pittau, Roberto Zelli
90
Income Inequality and Redistribution Policies in Japan During the 1980s and 1990s
Takashi Oshio
119
Crying Wolf: Rectifying Poverty Rates in Kosova
Richard Beilock, James Freeman
147

Book Reviews

The Reluctant Economist, Richard A. Easterlin
Björn Gustafsson
167
Markets and Diversity, Sherwin Rosen
Martin Shubik
171
From Cotton Mill to Business Empire: The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China, Elisabeth Köll
Kenneth Mischel
173
Labor Supply and Incentive to Work in Europe, Ramón Gómez-Salvador, Ana Lamo, Barbara Petrongolo, Melanie Ward, Etienne Wasmer (eds.)
Giovanni Russo
177

Indices

Volume Index
i
Referee Index
ii
Author Index
iv