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Tackling inequality /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Layard, Richard, 1934-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndsmill, Basingstoke : New York : Macmillan ; St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Subjects:
Poor > Employment > Great Britain.
Poor > Employment > Europe, Eastern.
Labor supply > Effect of education on > Great Britain.
Labor supply > Effect of education on > Europe, Eastern.
Post-communism > Europe, Eastern.
Table of Contents:
  • Why I am an economist
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Introduction
  • How to privatise
  • Post-stabilisation inflation in Poland
  • Who gains and who loses from Russian credit expansion?
  • Can Russia control inflation?
  • How much unemployment is needed for restructuring? The Russian experience
  • Why so much pain? .