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Inequality, redistribution and mobility edited by Juan Gabriel Rodriguez, John A. Bishop.

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Research on Economic Inequality's 28th volume provides original research on how inequality is affected by redistribution, growth, mobility and educational opportunities. Additional papers discuss poverty, welfare and wage discrimination.

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Rodriguez, Juan Gabriel (Editor), Bishop, John A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
Series:Research on Economic Inequality Ser.
Subjects:
Income distribution.
Equality > Economic aspects.
Economic policy.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Half Title Page
  • Series Editors Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter 1: Inequality and Real Income Growth for Middle- and Low-income Households across Rich Countries in Recent Decades
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Measuring Income Inequality and Income Growth Across Rich Countries in Recent Decades
  • 3. What Has Happened to Income Inequality?
  • 4. Growth in Middle Incomes
  • 5. Inequality and Middle-Income Growth
  • 6. GDP Growth and Growth in Middle Incomes
  • 7. Inequality, Growth and Real Incomes of The Poor.
  • 8. Sources of Growth for Middle and Lower Incomes and Their Relationship With Gdp Growth
  • 9. THE Implications for Monitoring and Promoting Progress
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Income Redistribution through Taxes and Transfers across OECD Countries
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data, Defining and Measuring Redistribution
  • 3. Redistribution in The Tax-Transfer System as a Whole
  • 3.1. An Assessment of Levels and Changes in Redistribution
  • 3.2. Redistribution Across Different Income Groups
  • 3.3. The Impact of Aging and Rising Senior Employment on Measured Changes in Redistribution.
  • 4. Redistribution in Different Parts of The Tax-Transfer System
  • 4.1. The Relative Role of Income Taxes, Social Security Contributions, and Cash Transfers in Reducing Income Inequality, Across OECD Countries and Over Time
  • 4.2. The Relative Role of Size of Taxes and Transfers, of Tax Progressivity and of Transfer Targeting in Reducing Income Inequality, Across Oecd Countries and Over Time
  • 5. Changes in Redistribution to The Bottom 40%
  • 6. Wrapping-Up
  • references
  • Chapter 3: Measuring Directional Mobility: The Bartholomew and Prais-Bibby Indices Reconsidered.
  • 1. Introduction, Motivations, and Objectives
  • 2. Literature Review
  • 3. A New Mobility Ordering
  • 4. Bartholomew Directional Mobility Indices
  • 4.1. Background
  • 4.2. Bartholomew Upward Mobility Index
  • 4.3. Bartholomew Downward Mobility Index
  • 5. An Empirical Illustration
  • 5.1. Application of Upward Mobility
  • 5.2. Monotonicity, Dominance and UMFSA
  • 6. A Bayesian Approach and The Prais-Bibby Index
  • 7. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 4: On the Measurement of Multi-Period Income Mobility
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A New Approach to Measuring Multi-Period Mobility.
  • 2.2. Desirable Properties of a Multi-Period Mobility Index
  • 2.3. Multi-Period Mobility Partial Orderings with an Absolute Lorenz Curve
  • 2.4. Satisfaction of Other Desirable Properties
  • 2.5. Examples of Multi-Period Mobility Indices based on Absolute Inequality Indices
  • 2.6. Connection to Previous Measurement Proposals in the Literature
  • 2.1. The Basic Setting
  • 2.2. Desirable Properties of a Multi-Period Mobility Index
  • 2.3. Multi-Period Mobility Partial Orderings with an Absolute Lorenz Curve
  • 2.4. Satisfaction of Other Desirable Properties.

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