Personal Distribution of Income in an International Perspective - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540676481 ISBN 13: 9783540676485

Publisher: Springer, 2000

Synopsis

The book examines the development and the dynamics of the personal distribution of income in Germany, Great Britain, Sweden and the United States and some other OECD countries. Starting with the distribution of labour income, the issue is then expanded to include all monetary incomes of private households and to adjust for household size by an equivalence scale. Some authors analyse one country in detail by decomposing aggregate inequality measures, other authors focus on direct comparisons of some features of the income distribution in Germany with those in Great Britain or in the United States. The results suggest dominant influences of unemployment as well as of tax and transfer policies and different welfare regimes, respectively, but also show that our knowledge about distributional processes is still limited.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540676481
• ISBN 13: 9783540676485
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 243
• Editor: Hauser Richard, Becker Irene