Tackling inequality
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Tackling inequality
Macmillan Press , St. Martin's Press, 1999
- : uk
- : us
Available at 33 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Richard Layard is one of Britain's foremost applied economists, whose work has had a profound impact on the policy debate in Britain and abroad. This book contains his most influential articles on education, equality and income distribution and on the lessons of economic transition in Eastern Europe. It is published along with a companion volume. Inequality argues that lifetime inequality is the basic inequality we should worry about. In this context education is a powerful instrument of redistribution, as well as a national investment. Cash redistribution has efficiency costs which can be calculated, but it may also serve to discourage inefficient over-work arising from each person's efforts to earn more than his neighbour. A final series of essays is based on Layard's recent work on reform strategies in Russia and Poland. The book opens with Richard Layard's personal credo 'Why I became an economist'.
Table of Contents
Why I am an Economist PART A: EDUCATION AND INEQUALITY Introduction to Part A On Measuring the Redistribution of Lifetime Income Family Income Distribution: Explanation and Policy Evaluation Education Versus Cash Redistribution: The Lifetime Context The Causes of Poverty The Effect of Collective Bargaining on Relative and Absolute Wages Human Capital and Earnings: British Evidence and a Critique The Screening Hypothesis and the Returns to Education Capital-Skill Complementarity, Income Distribution and Output Accounting Married Women's Participation and Hours Why are More Women Working in Britain? On the Use of Distributional Weights in Social Cost-Benefit Analysis Human Satisfactions and Public Policy Economic Theories of Educational Planning University Efficiency and University Finance The Cost-Effectiveness of the New Media in Higher Education The Pool of Ability The Thatcher Miracle? Lifelong Learning PART B: TRANSITION Introduction to Part B How to Privatise Post-Stabilization Inflation in Poland Who Gained and Who Lost From Russian Credit Expansion? Can Russia Control Inflation? How Much Unemployment is Needed for Restructuring? The Russian Experience Why So Much Pain? Appendix: Publications by Richard Layard Index
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