Changing Patterns in the Distribution of Economic Welfare: An Economic Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780521142694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 408 str.

Peter Gottschalk; Bjorn A. Gustafsson; Edward E. Palmer

Opis

This book examines the income distributional experience of fifteen developed economies over the past two decades. It considers the effects on the inequality of household income of the development of individual earnings, unemployment, inflation, public sector transfers and taxes, and demographic changes. Chapters are devoted to the experiences of Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, West and former East Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Holland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.