Changing Patterns in the Distribution of Economic Welfare

An Economic Perspective

Peter Gottschalk editor Björn A Gustafsson editor Edward E Palmer editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:29th Sep '97

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This 1997 book charts and analyses the income distributional experiences of 15 industrial and post-industrial countries.

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.

ISBN: 9780521562621

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm

Weight: 770g

408 pages