Peter Gottschalk (Boston College, Massachusetts), Bjorn A. Gustafsson (Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden), Edward E. Palmer
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.
This book examines the income distributional experience of fifteen developed economies over the past two decades. It considers the effects on the ineq...
