The distribution of welfare and household production : international perspectives /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998. |
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| Description: | xix, 424 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3497817 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction / Stephen P. Jenkins, Arie Kapteyn and Bernard M. S. van Praag
- 2. Escape from cittadella neoclassica: reflections on the work of Aldi Hagenaars / Joop Hartog
- 3. Patterns of poverty in Europe / Aldi Hagenaars, Klaas de Vos and Asghar Zaidi
- 4. Comparing poverty rates across countries: a case study of France and the United Kingdom / Anthony B. Atkinson, Karen Gardiner and Valerie Lechene [et al.]
- 5. The distribution of welfare: inequality, earnings capacity, and household production in a comparative perspective / Peter Saunders, Inge O'Connor and Timothy Smeeding
- 6. Mobility and inequality in the 1980s: a cross-national comparison of the United States and Germany / Richard Burkhauser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Stephen Rhody
- 7. Poverty perceptions and the poverty line / Yoram Amiel and Frank Cowell
- 8. Using subjective information in microeconomic modeling: an application to vacation behavior / Peter Kooreman
- 9. Well-being and labor market status / Isolde Wottiez and Jules Theeuwes
- 10. Do inequality measures measure inequality? / Gary Fields
- 11. Deprivation profiles and deprivation indices / Anthony Shorrocks
- 12. Poverty orderings for the Dalton utility-gap measures / James Foster and Yong Jin
- 13. Changing welfare in a changing world?: income and expenditure inequalities in the Czech and Slovak republics / Thesia Garner
- 14. The distribution of income, wealth, and economic security: the impact of unemployment insurance reforms in Canada / Lars Osberg, Sadettin Erksoy and Shelley Phipps
- 15. A structural model of the determinants of educational success / Robert Haveman, Kathryn Wilson and Barbara Wolfe
- 16. Equivalence scales and household welfare: what can be learned from household budget data? / Richard Blundell
- 17. Equivalence scales and the distribution of well-being across and within households / David Johnson
- 18. The incomes of UK women: limited progress towards equality with men? / Stephen P. Jenkins and Nigel O'Leary.