Aspects of Distribution of Wealth and Income

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Dimitri B. Papadimitriou

      Pages 1-8

3. Income and Wealth Distribution in the United States

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Factors Affecting Household Saving Behavior: An Introductory Analysis

      • James N. Morgan, F. Thomas Juster

      Pages 11-30

   3. The Relationship between Poverty and Household Type

      • Joan R. Rodgers

      Pages 31-54

4. International Comparisons

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55

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   2. International Comparisons of Earnings Inequality for Men in the 1980s

      • Gordon W. Green Jr, John Coder, Paul Ryscavage

      Pages 57-79

   3. International Comparison of Household Inequalities Based on Microdata With Decompositions

      • Sourushe Zandvakili

      Pages 80-105

   4. Adjustment, Growth and Income Distribution in Indonesia

      • Erik Thorbecke

      Pages 106-147

5. Policy Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. Economic Justice to the Working Poor Through a Wage Subsidy

      • Edmund S. Phelps

      Pages 151-167

   3. Growing Inequality as an Issue for Economic Policy

      • Paul S. Sarbanes

      Pages 168-174

   4. Causes of and Possible Responses to the Recent Rise in Income Inequality

      • Leonard A. Rapping

      Pages 175-184

   5. The Widening Wage Distribution and its Policy Implications

      • Rebecca Blank

      Pages 185-193

   6. Income Inequality and the Underclass

      • Isabel V. Sawhill

      Pages 194-198

6. Back Matter

   Pages 199-206

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In the 1980s, a decade of economic expansion, the rich grew richer but the poor poorer. These essays explore the disparities in wealth and income comparing the fortunes of American households with those in other industrialized nations. Demographic and structural changes, saving behaviouir, earning gaps, gender, education and race are analysed in these essays and methodological and measurement issues explored. Policies to counteract growing inequality are discussed and remedies proposed.

• economic policy
• growth
• income distribution

• Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA

  Dimitri B. Papadimitriou

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