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

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Imprint:Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Description:1 online resource (x, 397 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11114200
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Other authors / contributors:Gottschalk, Peter, 1942-
Gustafsson, Björn.
Palmer, Edward E., 1945-
ISBN:0511002564
9780511002564
0521562627
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Other form:Print version: Changing patterns in the distribution of economic welfare. Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997 0521562627
Table of Contents:
  • What's behind the increase in inequality? An introduction / Peter Gottschalk, Björn Gustafsson, 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, Shelley Phipps
  • Distribution of economic well-being in Japan : towards a more unequal society / Toshiaki Tachibanaki, 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, Irene Becker
  • Income inequality and poverty in Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s / Tim Callan, 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, Jan Nelissen
  • Changes in Swedish inequality : a study of equivalent income, 1975-1991 / Björn Gustafsson, Edward Palmer
  • Income inequality and poverty in Finland in the 1980s / Markus Jäntti, Veli-Matti Ritakallio
  • Disparities in