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Aspects of Distribution of Wealth and Income

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Dimitri B. Papadimitriou

    1. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA

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Part of the book series: Jerome Levy Economics Institute (JLEI)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  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.

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  • Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA

    Dimitri B. Papadimitriou

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