Includes bibliographical references and index.

Editor's introduction -- The Lorenz curve: evergreen after 100 years -- Gini, deprivation, and complaints -- Theory and methods -- Evaluating dominance ranking of PSID incomes by various household attributes -- Indices and tests for alienation based upon Gini type and distributional overlap measures -- Measuring relative equality of concentration between different income/wealth distributions -- Information matrices for some bivariate Pareto distributions -- On Lorenz preorders and opportunity inequality in finite environments -- Inequality decomposition -- Inequality decomposition, directional economic distance, metric distance, and Gini dissimilarity between income distributions -- On the shapley value and the decomposition of inequality by population subgroups with special emphasis on the Gini index -- Analysis of the short term impact of the Argentine social assistance program plan -- Jefes y Jefas on income inequality applying the Dagum decomposition analysis of the Gini ratio -- The Gini unbound: analyzing class inequality with model-based clustering -- Lorenz curve and Gini measures in applied economics -- The Lorenz curve in economics and econometrics -- Income inequality and the economic position of women in Norway 1970 - 2002 -- Technological choices under institutional constraints: measuring the impact on earnings dispersion -- Redistributing global income to benefit the poor -- Inequality aversion, income inequality, and social policy in the US: 1947 - 1998 -- Internal migration, household size and income inequality in Turkey.