The personal distribution of income in an international perspective
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The personal distribution of income in an international perspective
Springer, 2000
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"Revised versions of papers presented at a conference held in July 1999 at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst ... [and] sponsored by the Institute and the Hans Böckler Foundation"--P.
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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.
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