Revival: Economic Inequality and Poverty: International Perspectives (1991): International Perspectives

by Osberg,Lars

• ISBN13: 9780873325400
• ISBN10: 0873325400
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1991-01-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
The Measurement of Income Inequality	p. 3
Introduction	p. 3
Concluding Comments	p. 34
Introduction	p. 39
Cross-National Comparisons of Inequality and poverty position	p. 39
Summary and Conclusion	p. 53
Appendix	p. 54
References	p. 57
References	p. 58
Global Economic Inequality and Its Trends Since 1950	p. 60
Summary	p. 82
Appendix A Note on Elasticities of Theft and MLD Coefficients	p. 83
Referances	p. 86
References	p. 90
The Distribution of Household Wealth: Methodological Issues, Time Trends, and Cross-Sectional Comparisons	p. 92
Introduction	p. 92
Concluding Remarks	p. 128
References	p. 129
The Definition and Measurement of poverty	p. 134
Introduction	p. 134
References	p. 153
References	p. 154
Short- and Long-Term poverty in the United States: Measuring the American ""Underclass""	p. 157
Conclusions: Implications of This Literature for Estimates of the Size and Nature of the Underclass	p. 185
References	p. 188
Social Security and Income Redistribution	p. 193
Concluding Remarks	p. 217
References	p. 218
The Impact of Government Tax and Expenditure programs on the Distribution of Income in the United States	p. 220
Summary and Conclusions	p. 241
References	p. 245
Conclusion	p. 246
Note	p. 248
References	p. 249
Index	p. 251
Contributors	p. 258
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