Growing unequal? : income distribution and poverty in OECD countries.
Growing Unequal? brings together a range of analyses on the distribution of economic resources in OECD countries. The evidence on income distribution and poverty covers, for the first time, all 30 OECD countries in the mid-2000s, while information on trends extending back to the mid-1980s is provide...
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Paris :
OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- The Distribution of household income in OECD countries : what are its main features?
- Changes in demography and living arrangements : are they widening the distribution of household income?
- Earnings and income inequality : understanding the links
- How much redistribution do governments achieve? : the role of cash transfers and household taxes
- Poverty in OECD countries : an assessment based on static income - Does income poverty last over time? : evidence from longitudinal data
- Non-income poverty : what can we learn from indicators of material deprivation?
- Intergenerational mobility : does it offset or reinforce income inequality?
- Publicly-provided services : how do they change the distribution of households' economic resources?
- How is household wealth distributed? : evidence from the Luxembourg wealth study
- Inequality in the distribution of economic resources : how it has changed and what governments can do about it.