Changing patterns in the distribution of economic welfare : an international perspective

Changing patterns in the distribution of economic welfare : an international perspective /

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Other Authors: Gottschalk, Peter, 1942-, Gustafsson, Björn, Palmer, Edward E., 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Subjects:
Income distribution > Case studies.
Transfer payments > Case studies.
Income distribution.
Transfer payments.
Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • What's behind the increase in inequality? an introduction / Peter Gottschalk, Björn Gustafsson, and Edward Palmer
  • Policy changes and growing earnings inequality in the US and six other OECD countries / Peter Gottschalk
  • A survey of income inequality over the last twenty years - how does the UK compare? / Karen Gardiner
  • Economic adjustment and distributional change: income inequality and poverty in Australia in the 1980s / Peter Saunders
  • Unemployment, unemployment insurance and the distribution of income in Canada in the 1980s / Lars Osberg, Sadettin Erksoy, and Shelley Phipps
  • Distribution of economic well-being in Japan: towards a more unequal society / Toshiaki Tachibanaki, and Tadashi Yagi
  • Income inequality and poverty under transition from rapid inflation to stabilisation: Israel, l979-l990 / Lea Achdut
  • Changes in inequality in Greece in the 1970s and the 1980s / Panos Tsakloglou
  • The development of income distribution in the Federal Republic of Germany during the 1970s and 1980s / Richard Hauser and Irene Becker
  • Income inequality and poverty in Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s / Tim Callan and Brian Nolan
  • Income distribution in France: the mid 1980s turning point / Pierre Concialdi
  • The distribution of economic well-being in the Netherlands, its evolution in the 1980s and the role of demographic change / Ruud Muffels and Jan Nelissen
  • Changes in Swedish inequality: a study of equivalent income, 1975-1991 / Björn Gustafsson and Edward Palmer
  • Income inequality and poverty in Finland in the 1980s / Markus Jäntti and Veli-Matti Ritakallio
  • Disparities in the economic well-being of Hungarian society from the late 1970s to the 1980s / Ödön Éltetö
  • The emergence of the labour market and earnings distribution: the case of the Czech Republic / Jiří Večerník.

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