Inequality, mobility, and segregation : essays in honor of Jacques Silber / edited by John A. Bishop, Rafael Salas.

Papers presented at the Fourth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, held in Catania, Sicily, in July 2011.

Includes bibliographical references.

Measuring segregation : basic concepts and extensions to other domains / Jacques Silber -- Occupational segregation measures : a role for status / Coral del Río and Olga Alonso-Villar -- Occupational segregation of Afro-Latinos / Carlos Gradín -- Multigroup segregation patterns and determinants : the case of immigrants in an Italian city / Francesco Andreoli -- Equal-equivalents for inequality, welfare, and liberty : concepts and policy / Serge Kolm -- Influence functions for policy impact analysis / B. Essama-Nssah and Peter J. Lambert -- A note on multidimensional distribution-sensitive poverty axioms / Ma Casilda Lasso de la Vega and Ana Urrutia -- Convergence club empirics : evidence from Indian states / Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay -- The EU-wide earnings distribution / Andrea Brandolini, Alfonso Rosolia and Roberto Torrini -- Earnings mobility, earnings inequality, and labor market institutions in Europe / Denisa Maria Sologon and Cathal O'Donoghue -- Intergenerational educational mobility and social exclusion : Germany and the United States compared / Veronika V. Eberharter -- Variable equivalence scales and trends in German income inequality / Jürgen Faik -- Educational inequality in the world, 1950-2010 : estimates from a new dataset / Wail Benaabdelaali, Saîd Hanchane and Abdelhak Kamal -- Understanding the drivers of low-income transitions in Luxembourg / Alessio Fusco and Nizamul Islam -- Welfare reform and poverty : a latent trajectory model analysis / Michael J. Camasso and Radha Jagannathan.