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A collection of papers which examine the impact of the minimum wage. It applies experimental methods to study respondent's attitudes toward inequality and risk. It also investigates the properties of "intermediate" measures of inequality.

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1. Minimum wages, poverty and welfare (J.P. Formby, J.A. Bishop, H. Kim). 2. The effect of changes in the real minimum wage on teenage employment: Evidence from Urban-Area data (J.P. Cover, H. Kim). 3. Risk, inequality aversion and biases born of social position: Further experimental tests of the leaky bucket (S.R. Beckman, J.P. Formby, W.J. Smith, B. Zheng). 4. Preceptions of inequality and risk (F. Cowell, G. Cruces). 5. On intermediate measures of inequality (B. Zheng). 6. Lorenz decompositions and interdistributional Lorenz comparisons (J.A. Bishop, V. Chow, L. Zeager). 7. Mobility, inequality and horizontal equity (S. Yitzhaki, Q. Wodon). 8. Evaluating the income redistribution effects of tax reforms in discrete models (J. Creedy, G. Kalb, R. Scutella). 9. Survey reweighting for tax microsimulation (J. Creedy). 10. Indices of tax progressivity and maroceconomic variable in the U.K: 1960-2001 (J. Deutsch, J. Silber, B.-Z. Zilberfarb). 11. Macroeconomic performance and the Sen index of poverty: Estimates based on state data (C. Johnson, H. Kim). 12. Financial market conditions and income distribution in Japan (R. Sakano). 13. Antitrust enforcement and economic growth (D. Slottje). 14. Economic well-being based on income, consumer expenditures and personal assessments of minimum needs (T. Garner, K. Short). 15. Consumption-based poverty in the United States: New evidence and a test for robustness (F. Luo). 16. Differences in the determinants of elderly and non-elderly poverty (G.A. Hoover). 17. A dominance analysis of Thailand's regional income distributions, 1992-2000 (K. Chumrusphonlert, J.P. Formby). 18. An analysis of differential provincial income inequality trends in Canada (D. Gray, J. Mills, S. Zandvakilli). 19. Adjusting Gini Coefficients with Quantile Regression: Taiwan, 1978-1999 (J.A. Bishop, J.-R. Chiou, S.-Y. Mai). 20. Secular trends in Socioeconomic inequality of obesity in the United States (Q.H. Zhang, Y. Wang).