The Distribution of Welfare and Household Production: International Perspectives

by Edited by Stephen P. Jenkins , Arie Kapteyn , Bernard M. S. van Praag

• ISBN13: 9780521168427
• ISBN10: 0521168422
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

When the overall economic pie is not growing, then how it is shared out becomes more important. This 1998 book is a collection of empirical and theoretical papers by a distinguished set of international authors about the personal distribution of welfare and household production. Comparisons of poverty, income inequality and income capacity across countries in Europe and North America are the basis of Part I. Three chapters introduce subjective (non-monetary) approaches to the assessment of personal economic welfare. In Part III new results about the measurement of inequality and poverty are derived. Part V explores topics examining interactions between personal welfare and the resources derived from one's household, the labor market, and from the government through the tax and benefit system. The book reflects the interests of, and is a memorial to, the late Aldi Hagenaars.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Escape from citadella neoclassica: reflections of the work of Aldi Hagenaars

Cross-National Comparisons of the Distribution of Welfare

Patterns of poverty in Europe

Comparing poverty rates across countries: a case study of France and the United Kingdom

The distribution of welfare: inequality, earnings capacity, and household production in a comparative perspective

Mobility and inequality in the 1980s: a cross-national comparison of the United States and Germany

Subjective Approaches to Welfare Measurement

Poverty perceptions and the poverty line

Using subjective information in macroeconomic modeling: an application to vacation behavior

Well-being and labor market status

Summarizing Welfare

Do inequality measures measure inequality?vG. S. Fields

Deprivation profiles and deprivation indices

Poverty orderings for the Dalton utility-gap measures

Changing welfare in a changing world? Income and expenditure inequalities in the Czech and Slovak Republics

The Household, Income, and Welfare

The distribution of income, wealth, and economic security: the impact of unemployment insurance reforms in Canada

A structural model of the determinants of educational success

Equivalence scales and the distribution of well-being across and within households

The incomes of UK women: limited progress towards equality with men?

Equivalence scales and household welfare: what can be learned from household budget

Index

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