Economic Development The Family And Income Distribution

Author : Simon Kuznets
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521521963

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Economic Development, the Family, and Income Distribution by Simon Kuznets Pdf

This is a collection of essays by Simon Kuznets, winner of the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, published posthumously. It represents the primary concerns of his research at a late phase of his career, as well as themes from his earlier work. The first four chapters deal with 'modern economic growth'. Chapters five to seven introduce the main theme of the remainder of the volume: interrelations between demographic change and income inequality. Chapters eight to ten draw on a wider set of data to make comparisons of income inequality among societies at widely different levels of development. Chapter eleven returns to data for the United States to develop more fully the importance of differing childbearing patterns for income inequality. In the introduction Professor Richard Easterlin discusses the relationship of the essays to the balance of Kuznets's writings. In the afterword Professor Robert Fogel discusses the methodologies favoured by Kuznets.

Author : Nico Heerink
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783642785719

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Population Growth, Income Distribution, and Economic Development by Nico Heerink Pdf

In this book, a model of long-term interrelationships between income distribution, population growth and economic development is developed and estimated from data for 54 countries. The results indicate that a reduction of income inequality leads to lower fertility and mortality, to improvedbasic needs satisfaction, and to lower labour force participation of young and old males and of females in Asia and Africa. The effect of income distribution on saving and consumption is found to be negligible. These outcomes suggest that family planning and health policies in LDCs will show better results when they are supplemented with policies aimed at makingthe poor benefit from economic growth. As regards development policy, the results indicate that a reduction of income inequality does not impair the formation of physical capital, but enhances the formation of human capital and lowers the growth rate of the labour force.

Author : William Loehr,John P Powelson
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1977-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015002243270

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Economic Development, Poverty, And Income Distribution by William Loehr,John P Powelson Pdf

Conference report on economic development, poverty and income distribution in developing countries - presents a literature survey on underdevelopment, covers entrepreneurship and population problems in South East Asia, ujamaa collective farming villages in Tanzania, discusses development policy issues regarding economic growth, labour force participation of woman workers, water supply and intermediate technology, etc. Bibliographys, diagrams and statistical tables. Conference held in estes park 1976 spring.

Author : Jacques Lecaillon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040066412

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Income Distribution and Economic Development by Jacques Lecaillon Pdf

Research into the relationship between income distribution, economic development and employment in developing countries - examines factors of income inequality based on social status, regional disparity, etc.; makes a comparison of the impact of public expenditure on family budgets in developing and developed countries and examines economic implications of income redistribution, etc.

Author : Charles M. Beach,Frank Flatters,David E. Card
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1981-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442633384

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Distribution of Income and Wealth in Ontario by Charles M. Beach,Frank Flatters,David E. Card Pdf

Distribution analysis has advanced remarkably in recent years, and this is a valuable application of its principles to a Canadian context. The book provides an extensive survey of recent literature and a new source of income and wealth distribution data for Ontario, drawn from newly available microdata sets. It also presents an evaluation of the data as a basis for measuring inequality in the distribution of economic and well-being. The empirical results illustrate how incomes vary significantly with age according to labour market attachment and experience, educational attainment and occupation, transfer receipts, and investment benefits. Similarly, strong age effects on net worth account reflect life-cycle patterns in asset holdings and debts typically associated with family investment in housing and financial adjustments for retirement. Differences in family size and composition have a substantial effect on the structure of family economic well-being. The inequality effects of adjusting for accrued capital gains and net worth holdings can also be quite significant. It is found that the distributional effects of CPP net benefits are considerable, although they are not as equalizing as one may have expected because of marked cohort effects. The detailed findings suggest that the life-cycle framework is a very useful one for evaluating the distributional effects of certain government programs, particularly intertemporal ones, and they underline the need for a range of different types of policies to address low income problems. The study urges greater recognition of the inequality of treatment and opportunity among different groups of the population. It also points out that conventional income distribution figures are only very imperfect estimates of the state of inequality in the underlying distribution of economic well-being.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Income distribution
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045229346

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Poverty, Income Distribution, the Family, and Public Policy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frank Levy,Richard C. Michel
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0877664870

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The Economic Future of American Families by Frank Levy,Richard C. Michel Pdf

This book analyzes the way families fared in the turbulent economy of the 1970s and 1980s, and a guess about the way today's younger families will manage the next few decades. According to Levy and Michel, each generation of workers is on its own "income track." Initially incomes are heavily influenced by the size of the age group, but later average incomes are influenced by growth in overall business productivity, changes in unemployment rates, average education levels and, for workers who do not go to college, the availability of manufacturing jobs. The authors estimated these relationships for past generations, and project income growth for baby-boom males who entered the labor force in the mid-1970s. They offer familiar remedies to spur productivity growth: raising average skill levels, and increasing personal savings. ISBN 0-87766-486-2: $31.50.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264044197

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Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries by OECD Pdf

This report provides evidence of a fairly generalised increase in income inequality over the past two decades across OECD countries, but the timing, intensity and causes of the increase differ from what is typically suggested in the media.

Author : Martin Neil Baily,Gary Burtless,Robert E. Litan
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0815716311

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Growth with Equity by Martin Neil Baily,Gary Burtless,Robert E. Litan Pdf

For nearly two decades the U.S. economy has been plagued by two disturbing economic trends: the slowdown in the growth rates of productivity and average real wages and the increase in wage and income inequality. The federal budget is in chronic deficit. Imports have far exceeded exports for more than a decade. American competitiveness has been a source of concern for even longer. Many Americans worry that foreigners are buying up U.S. companies, that the economy is losing its manufacturing base, and that the gap between rich and poor is widening. In this book three of the nation's most noted economists look at the primary reasons for these trends and assess which of the many suggestions for change in policy—whether for increased tax incentives for investment, education reform, or accelerated research and development—are likely to work and which may not work and could even hinder economic development. The author's discuss a variety of issues connected with deindustrialization and diminished competitiveness, distinguishing between problems that would be of real concern and those that should not. They evaluate explanations for slow growth in aggregate productivity in the United States and its relation to slower growth in other industrialized countries. They discuss the performance of the various sectors of the U.S. economy and systematically examine the evidence for and against the major proposals for correcting the adverse trends in productivity and inequity. Growth With Equity clearly explains how the country can accomplish the challenge of accelerating growth and narrowing the gap that separates the rich from the poor. While recognizing that some of their recommendations may be politically painful, the authors stress the importance of adopting a purposeful, long-range policy to encourage growth, ensure equity, and reduce the government's equity.

Author : H. Neudecker,R.D.H. Heijmans
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789400935914

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The Practice of Econometrics by H. Neudecker,R.D.H. Heijmans Pdf

In the autumn of 1961 Jan Salomon ('Mars') Cramer was appointed to the newly established chair of econometrics at the University of Amsterdam. This volume is published to commemorate this event. It is well-known how much econometrics has developed over the period under consideration, the 25 years that elapsed between 1961 and 1986. This is specifically true for the areas in which Cramer has been actively interested. We mention the theory and measurement of consumer behaviour; money and income; regression, correla tion and forecasting. In the present volume this development will be high lighted. Sixteen contributions have been sollicited from scholars all over the world who have belonged to the circle of academic friends of Cramer for a shorter or longer part of the period of 25 years. The contributions fall broadly speaking into the four areas mentioned above. Theory and measurement of consumer behaviour is represented by four papers, whereas a fifth paper deals with a related area. Richard Blundell and Costas Meghir devote a paper to the estimation of Engel curves. They apply a discrete choice model to British (individual) data from the Family Expenditure Survey 1981. Their aim is to assess the impact of individual characteristics such as income, demographic structure, location, wages and prices on commodity expenditure.

Author : Mr.Vito Tanzi
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781451858921

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Fundamental Determinants of Inequality and the Role of Government by Mr.Vito Tanzi Pdf

This paper discusses the fundamental determinants of inequality. These are identified as world or market forces, social norms, ownership of real and human capital, and the role of government. The change in the relative role of these factors in determining inequality during economic development is analyzed.

Author : Athanasios Asimakopulos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789400926615

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Theories of Income Distribution by Athanasios Asimakopulos Pdf

This book brings together the work of scholars who have written for it independent essays in their areas of particular expertise in the general field of income distribution. The first eight chapters provide a review of the major theories of income distribution, while the final two are con cerned with problems of empirical estimates and inferences. One of these chapters presents estimates of factor shares in national income in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, while the other ex amines how relationships between the size distribution of income and economic development are being investigated. A convenient way of conveying an understanding of how economic theorists have dealt with the distribution of income is to examine separ ately each major approach to this subject. Each contributor was thus assigned a particular approach, or a major theorist. No attempt was made to avoid the apparent duplication that occurs when the same references are examined by different contributors. The reader gains by seeing how the same material can be treated by those looking at it from different perspectives. A chapter each has been devoted to Marx and Marshall.

Author : Lawrence Khoo,Benjamin Dennis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022001098

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Income Inequality, Fertility Choice, and Economic Growth by Lawrence Khoo,Benjamin Dennis Pdf

Author : Harry Gordon Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Income
ISBN : 0856410063

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The Theory of Income Distribution by Harry Gordon Johnson Pdf

Author : Nancey Green Leigh
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412850483

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Stemming Middle-Class Decline by Nancey Green Leigh Pdf

Are Americans as well-off as they used to be? The answer affects everything from product markets and housing sales to social tranquility and presidential (and local) elections. This volume examines what is happening to the American middle class. In a detailed and comprehensive analysis, Nancey Green Leigh tracks changes in the pattern of income distribution over a twenty-year period. While earnings have increased, there is a widening gap between what middle-level earnings can purchase and the cost of a middle standard of living. Due to the fact that this decline has not been experienced equally in all regions, separate analyses are reported for urban and rural locations, major census regions, and the largest states. To identify which workers have been most affected, Leigh compares earning trends by race, gender, educational level, industry of employment, part- or full-time status, and fringe benefit recipiency. Rejecting short-term and demographic explanations, Leigh links the decline of the middle class to economic change and industrial restructuring. Leigh concludes her work by examining planning and policy prescriptions to improve the prospects of members—and aspiring members—of the middle economic class. She documents the decreasing ability of middle-level earners to purchase a middle standard of living and attributes the decline in part to failures in planning. Failures of planning, she observes, have contributed to the growing divergence between middle-level earnings and the middle standard of living. Stemming Middle-Class Decline provides comprehensive data and trends on workers, communities, regions, and the nation that all policymakers and government officials should read and examine with care.