Changing patterns in the distribution of economic welfare : aninternational perspective /

Other Authors: Gottschalk, Peter,, Gustafsson, Björn, Palmer, Edward E.,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge UniversityPress, 1997.
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Table of Contents:
  • What's behind the increase in inequality? an introduction / PeterGottschalk, Bjorn Gustafsson, and Edward Palmer
  • Policy changes andgrowing earnings inequality in the US and six other OECD countries /Peter Gottschalk
  • A survey of income inequality over the last twentyyears - how does the UK compare? / Karen Gardiner
  • Economicadjustment and distributional change: income inequality and poverty inAustralia in the 1980s / Peter Saunders
  • Unemployment, unemploymentinsurance and the distribution of income in Canada in the 1980s / LarsOsberg, Sadettin Erksoy, and Shelley Phipps
  • Distribution of economicwell-being in Japan: towards a more unequal society / ToshiakiTachibanaki, and Tadashi Yagi
  • Income inequality and poverty undertransition from rapid inflation to stabilisation: Israel, l979-l990 /Lea Achdut
  • Changes in inequality in Greece in the 1970s and the1980s / Panos Tsakloglou
  • The development of income distribution inthe Federal Republic of Germany during the 1970s and 1980s / RichardHauser and Irene Becker
  • Income inequality and poverty in Ireland inthe 1970s and 1980s / Tim Callan and Brian Nolan
  • Income distributionin France: the mid 1980s turning point / Pierre Concialdi
  • Thedistribution of economic well-being in