Handbook of income distribution

Author(s)

• Atkinson, A. B. (Anthony Barnes)
• Bourguignon, François

Bibliographic Information

Handbook of income distribution

edited by Anthony B. Atkinson and François Bourguignon

（Handbooks in economics, 16）

Elsevier, 2000-

• v. 1
• v. 2A
• v. 2B

Note

Vol. 1, 2A, 2B: Mark of "N・H" (i.e. North-Holland, an imprint of Elsevier Science)--T.p

Second impression on v. 1 (2003) paging: xix, 918, 38 p

Vol. 1: vol. 16 issued in one volume

Vol. 2A, 2B: no series number

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 2A ISBN 9780444594280

Description

What new theories, evidence, explanations, and policies have shaped our studies of income distribution in the 21st century?Editors Tony Atkinson and Francois Bourguignon assemble the expertise of leading authorities in this survey of substantive issues. In two volumes they address subjects that were not covered in Volume 1 (2000), such as education, health and experimental economics; and subjects that were covered but where there have been substantial new developments, such as the historical study of income inequality and globalization. Some chapters discuss future growth areas, such as inheritance, the links between inequality and macro-economics and finance, and the distributional implications of climate change. They also update empirical advances and major changes in the policy environment.

Table of Contents

Part I: Concepts and approaches 1. Income distribution in the history of economic thought Agnar Sandmo 2. Inequality, income and well-being Marc Fleurbaey, Erik Schokkaert and Koen Decancq 3. Multi-dimensional inequality and poverty Andrea Brandolini and Rolf Aaberge 4. Equality of opportunity John E. Roemer and Alain Trannoy 5. Polarization Jean-Yves Duclos 6. Statistical methods for distributional analysis Frank Cowell and Emmanuel Flachaire Part II Evidence 7. Long-run trends in the distribution of income and wealth Daniel Waldenstrom and Jesper Roine 8. Post-1970 trends in within-country inequality and poverty Timothy Michael Smeeding, Jeffrey Thompson and Salvatore Morelli 9. Post-1970 trends in inequality and poverty in developing and emerging countries Facundo Alvaredo and Leonardo Gasparini 10. Income mobility Markus Jantti and Stephen Jenkins 11. The Global distribution of income Sudhir Anand and Paul Segal 12. Gender inequality Dominique Meurs and Sophie Ponthieux 13. Experimental and survey evidence about attitudes to inequality Andrew Clark and Conchita d'Ambrosio

Volume

v. 2B ISBN 9780444594297

Description

What new theories, evidence, explanations, and policies have shaped our studies of income distribution in the 21st century? Editors Tony Atkinson and Francois Bourguignon assemble the expertise of leading authorities in this survey of substantive issues. In two volumes they address subjects that were not covered in Volume 1 (2000), such as education, health and experimental economics; and subjects that were covered but where there have been substantial new developments, such as the historical study of income inequality and globalization. Some chapters discuss future growth areas, such as inheritance, the links between inequality and macro-economics and finance, and the distributional implications of climate change. They also update empirical advances and major changes in the policy environment.

Table of Contents

Part III Explanations 14. Inequality in macro-economics. Jose-Victor Rios-Rull and Vincenzo Quadrini 15. Wealth and inheritance. Thomas Piketty 16. Intra-Household inequality. Pierre-Andre Chiappori and Costas Meghir 17. Health and inequality. Owen O'Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer and Tom Van Ourti 18. Labour-market institutions and the dispersion of wage earnings. Wiemer Salverda and Daniele Checchi 19. Cross-country studies of the multiple causes of inequality in the OECD area. Michael F. Foerster and Istvan Gyoergy Toth 20. Globalization and inequality. Ravi Kanbur Part IV: Policies 21. Democracy, political institutions and inequality. James Robinson and Daron Acemoglu 22. Equitable development policies. Martin Ravallion 23. The welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries. Brian Nolan, Ive Marx and Javier Olivera 24. Micro-simulation and policy analysis. Holly Sutherland, Alari Paulus and Francesco Figari

Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9780444816313

Description

Distributional issues may not have always been among the main concerns of the economic profession. Today, in the beginning of the 2000s, the position is different. During the last quarter of a century, economic growth proved to be unsteady and rather slow on average. The situation of those at the bottom ceased to improve regularly as in the preceding fast growth and full-employment period. Europe has seen prolonged unemployment and there has been widening wage dispersion in a number of OECD countries. Rising affluence in rich countries coexists, in a number of such countries, with the persistence of poverty. As a consequence, it is difficult nowadays to think of an issue ranking high in the public economic debate without some strong explicit distributive implications. Monetary policy, fiscal policy, taxes, monetary or trade union, privatisation, price and competition regulation, the future of the Welfare State are all issues which are now often perceived as conflictual because of their strong redistributive content. Economists have responded quickly to the renewed general interest in distribution, and the contents of this Handbook are very different from those which would have been included had it been written ten or twenty years ago. It has now become common to have income distribution variables playing a pivotal role in economic models. The recent interest in the relationship between growth and distribution is a good example of this. The surge of political economy in the contemporary literature is also a route by which distribution is coming to re-occupy the place it deserves. Within economics itself, the development of models of imperfect information and informational asymmetries have not only provided a means of resolving the puzzle as to why identical workers get paid different amounts, but have also caused reconsideration of the efficiency of market outcomes. These models indicate that there may not necessarily be an efficiency/equity trade-off; it may be possible to make progress on both fronts. The introduction and subsequent 14 chapters of this Handbook cover in detail all these new developments, insisting at the same time on how they tie with the previous literature on income distribution. The overall perspective is intentionally broad. As with landscapes, adopting various points of view on a given issue may often be the only way of perceiving its essence or reality. Accordingly, income distribution issues in the various chapters of this volume are considered under their theoretical or their empirical side, under a normative or a positive angle, in connection with redistribution policy, in a micro or macro-economic context, in different institutional settings, at various point of space, in a historical or contemporaneous perspective. Specialized readers will go directly to the chapter dealing with the issue or using the approach they are interested in. For them, this Handbook will be a clear and sure reference. To more patient readers who will go through various chapters of this volume, this Handbook should provide the multi-faceted view that seems necessary for a deep understanding of most issues in the field of distribution. For more information on the Handbooks in Economics series, please see our home page on http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/hes

Table of Contents

Introduction. Income distribution and Economics (A.B. Atkinson, F. Bourguignon). Social justice and distribution of income (A.K. Sen). Measurement of inequality (F.A. Cowell). Three centuries of inequality in Britain and America (P.H. Lindert). Historical perspectives on income distribution: The case of Europe (C. Morrisson). Empirical evidence on income inequality in industrialized countries (P. Gottschalk, T.M. Smeeding). Income poverty in advanced countries (M. Jantti, S. Danziger). Theories of the distribution of earnings (D. Neal, S. Rosen). Theories of persistent inequality and intergenerational mobility (T. Piketty). Macroeconomics of distribution and growth (G. Bertola). Wealth inequality, wealth constraints and economic performance (P. Bardhan, S. Bowles and H. Gintis). The distribution of wealth (J.B. Davies, A.F. Shorrocks). Redistribution (R. Boadway, M. Keen). Income distribution and development (R. Kanbur). Income distribution, economic systems and transition (J. Flemming, J. Micklewright).

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Details

• NCID: BA47515245
• ISBN:
  • 9780444816313
  • 9780444594280
  • 9780444594297
• LCCN: 00709379
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam
• Pages/Volumes: v.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 331.85
  • LCC : HB523
  • DC21 : 339.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Income distribution
  • LCSH : Economics
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00065123