UID:
almafu_9960119873702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xxv, 394 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-52193-6
Inhalt:
It is recognised that the gap between rich and poor in Britain is widening faster than in any comparable country. This important issue is attracting increasing attention after long neglect. Economists and others concerned with problems linked with inequality are investigating factors contributing to the situation. Based on results of the first recent major research programme in this area, this book, first published in 1996, examines wealth distribution in the United Kingdom over the last two decades. Leading specialists in the area tackle the problem from a wide variety of perspectives. Contributions include: the analysis of income distribution; the effects of greater female participation in the labour force; social security reform; and geographical variation at the national and local scale. Understanding the complexity of these factors is crucial to designing policies which can begin to cope with income inequalities.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction: After the Turning Point / John Hills -- Seeking to Explain the Distribution of Income / A.B. Atkinson -- The Changing Shape of the UK Income Distribution: Kernel Density Estimates / Frank A. Cowell, Stephen P. Jenkins and Julie A. Litchfield -- UK Household Cost-of-Living Indices, 1979-92 / Ian Crawford -- Cost-of-Living Differences Between the Regions of the United Kingdom / Vani K. Borooah, Patrick P.L. McGregor, Patricia M. McKee and Gwyneth E. Mulholland -- What Has Happened to the Wages of Men Since 1966? / Amanda Gosling, Stephen Machin and Costas Meghir -- Women's Pay and Family Incomes in Britain, 1979-91 / Susan Harkness, Stephen Machin and Jane Waldfogel -- More Work in Few Households? / Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth -- Self-Employment and the Distribution of Income / Nigel Meager, Gill Court and Janet Moralee -- Fairer or Fowler? The Effects of the 1986 Social Security Act on Family Incomes / Martin Evans -- Aspects of the Changing Geopgraphy of Poverty and Wealth / Anne E. Green -- Two nations? Changing Patterns of Income and Wealth in Two Contrasting Areas / Michael Noble and George Smith -- Patterns of Financial Wealth-Holding in the United Kingdom / James Banks, Andrew Dilnot and Hamish Low -- Home-Ownership, Housing Wealth and Wealth Distribution in Britain / Chris Hamnett and Jenny Seavers.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-55698-8
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-55326-1
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511521935
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