I: Measurement of Inequality and Poverty.- Inequality Changes and Income Growth.- Measurement of Income Inequality: Observed Versus True Data.- Income Sufficiency, Expenditures and Subjective Poverty: Results from the United States and The Netherlands.- Acceptance of Distributional Axioms: Experimental Findings.- The Age-Adjusted Inequality Measure of Gini Used to Measure Inequality in Health Care Costs.- A New Compromise Measure of Inequality.- Inequality, Poverty Measurement and Welfare Dominance: An Attempt at Unification.- The Scope of Inequality Coefficients.- Transformations of Stochastic Orderings.- Decomposition of Inequality Measures - Theory and Empirical Application.- On Atkinson's Index and Consensus in Rankings of Income Distributions.- II: Taxation and Redistribution.- Income Tax and Cost-of-Living Indices.- Risk-Taking Behavior and Inflation Adjustment of Personal Income Taxes.- The Analytics of Splitting under Income Taxation.- Welfare Effects of Abolishing the German Business Taxes - An Applied General Equilibrium Analysis.- Welfare or Pareto-Improving Directions of Piecemeal Tax Reform.- Redistribution Through the Income Tax.- Retrieving Inequality Concepts and Progressivity Objectives from Tax Functions via Approximations.- Merit Goods and Welfarism.- Measurement of Tax Progressivity with Nonconstant Income Distributions.- The Taxation of Married Couples in Germany: Distributive and Allocative Aspects.- Income Equality and Income Taxation.- Income Tax Reform in Germany: A Welfare Analysis.- Income Taxes: The Interaction between Government and Labour Unions.- On the Progressivity of Commodity Taxation.- III: Models and Measurement of Welfare.- On the Use of the Distance Function for Measuring Welfare in Quantity Constrained Regimes.- On Interpersonal Comparison and the Concept of Equality.- Welfare Aspects of Consumption Plans.- Public Budgeting and Social Welfare.- On the Uniqueness of Cardinally Interpreted Utility Functions.- The Measurement of Aggregate Welfare.- The Effect of Relative Price Changes and Cost of Living Adjustments on Some Welfare Indices.- Consumer's Welfare and Price Uncertainty.- A Reconsideration of Income Compensation Functions in Social Welfare Theory.- EC Integration and the Structure of the Franco-American Airline Industries: Implications for Efficiency and Welfare.- Regulation and Control of Hazardous Wastes: A Welfare-Theoretic Analysis.- Money Metric Measures of Individual and Social Welfare Allowing for Environmental Externalities.- 'Social Welfare Function' Measures of Horizontal Inequity.- Commodity Aggregation and Slutsky Asymmetry.- Indices of Welfare for the Economy and Households in Distorted Open Economies.- Resources and Functionings: A New View of Inequality in Australia.- Multidimensional Welfarisms.- Welfare Loss with Intermediate Goods.- Valuing Reductions of Public Risks: The Case of Hazardous Wast.- Harsanyi's Social Aggregation Theorem with Alternative Pareto Principles.- IV: Models and Measurement Related to Welfare and Inequality.- The Use of Fuzzy Set Techniques in the Context of Welfare Decisions.- Monotonicity and Separability.- Employment Segregation Indices: An Axiomatic Characterization.- Theory and Calculation of Productivity Indexes.- A Model of Interdependent Consumer Behavior: Nonlinear Dynamics in ?2.- An Impossibility Result Concerning Distributive Justice in Axiomatic Bargaining.- Rational Justice and Equality.- Existence and Stability of Equilibrium in a Multisectoral Model with Quantity Rationing.- Efficient Stationary Capital Accumulation Structures of a Biconvex Production Technology.