Changing Patterns in the Distribution of Economic Welfare: An Economic Perspective - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521142695 ISBN 13: 9780521142694

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This 1997 book examines the income distributional experience of fifteen developed economies - representing a wide range of social and economic strategies - over the past two decades. Experts from each of the countries have carefully documented the pattern of distributional change in individual earnings and household income in their countries and analysed the driving forces behind these changes. Separate chapters are devoted to the experiences of Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, West and former East Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. The authors examine the effects on the inequality of household income of the development of individual earnings, unemployment, inflation, public sector transfers and taxes, and demographic changes.

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Product Description

Changing Patterns in the Distribution of Economic Welfare This 1997 book charts and analyses the income distributional experiences of 15 industrial and post-industrial countries.

Book Description

This 1997 book charts and analyses the income distributional experiences of 15 industrial and post-industrial countries. The topic is central for persons interested in the development of (in)equality during the past two decades in countries with widely varying social, economic and political structures.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521142695
• ISBN 13: 9780521142694
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408
• Editor: Gottschalk Peter