The Dynamics of Inequality and Poverty: Comparing Income Distributions - Hardcover

Creedy, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1858988012 ISBN 13: 9781858988016

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

This important book is concerned with the evaluation of changes in income distribution and the analysis of tax and transfer systems.

The book begins with an introduction to the measurement of inequality and poverty, stressing the role of value judgements. The following six chapters deal with cross- sectional comparisons, including the analysis of a labour market model of income distribution, the choice of transfer system, marginal indirect tax reform, and the distributional effects of inflation. The next seven chapters are concerned with dynamic aspects of income distribution. These examine the complex relationship between cross-sectional and lifetime distributions, relative income mobility, and the effects of income mobility on temporary and permanent poverty.

The Dynamics of Inequality and Poverty will be essential reading for students and scholars of public sector economics, welfare economics and social economics, along with those directly concerned with policy formulation.

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About the Author

John Creedy, Wellington School of Business and Government, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1858988012
• ISBN 13: 9781858988016
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328