We study Canadian national and provincial family income inequality from 1991-1997. We use special cases of generalized entropy measures, the Theil measures of inequality, since they are decomposable into between provinces inequality and within provinces inequality. We draw statistical inferences...

This paper examines the distributional implications of tax and transfer programs in the United States using household income data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1981-91. Income inequality is measured for pre-tax/transfer and post-tax/transfer definitions of household income. To...

We study regional differences in family income inequality employing the Theil entropy measures, which are decomposable into a between-regions element and an element representing inequality within each of five regions in Canada, from 1991-1997. A bootstrapping technique is applied in order to...

This paper examines income inequality between cohorts of immigrant workers and native workers in the Canadian labour force. The degree of inequality is measured by the decomposable Theil generalized entropy measures. We provide comparisons of the patterns of inequality among immigrant status...

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We propose to combine recent developments in univariate and mul- tivariate unit root testing in order to construct a more powerful panel unit root test. We extend the GLS-detrending procedure of Elliott, Rothenberg and Stock (1996) to a panel Augmented Dickey-Fuller test. The finite sample power...

Mills (2008) examines an alternative procedure for testing precise hypotheses based on specifying a set of precise alternative hypotheses. Mills shows that this method resolves several problems with the standard procedure, particularly the Jeffreys-Lindley-Bartlett paradox, and has desirable...

We develop a structural microeconomic model of urban travel demand. This model incorporates aversion to congestion by individuals and determines the degree of congestion endogenously. Each individual?s optimal travel decision depends on the travel decisions of others, such that in Nash...

We analyze the welfare impact of monopolistic third degree price discrimination when all markets are not necessarily served by uniform pricing. We consider n markets with linear demand curves. Each demand is characterized by the price intercept of the demand curve and by the size of the market...