Individuals, and Families, and Income Distribution

Individuals, and Families, and Income Distribution
Author: Bryan L. Boulier
Publisher:
Total Pages: 58
Release: 1981
Genre: Congresses and conventions
ISBN:

This publication contains abstracts from papers presented at a Seminar on Individuals and Families and Income Distribution held at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, April 6-9, 1981. The purpose of the seminar was to study the links between demographic behavior and income distribution. Topics covered include individual and per capita income inequality, wives' labor force participation, family formation, additions to families through fertility and depletions through mortality, marital dissolution, household structure, child schooling, and intra- and intergenerational transfers among households. Also covered is the role that migration and population mobility play in wealth transfers between individuals and their families.

Economic Development, the Family, and Income Distribution

Economic Development, the Family, and Income Distribution
Author: Simon Kuznets
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2002-09-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521521963

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.

Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth

Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth
Author: Raj Chetty
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 736
Release: 2022-11-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0226816044

A collection of twenty-three studies that explore the latest developments in the analysis of income and wealth distribution and mobility. Economic research is increasingly focused on inequality in the distribution of personal resources and outcomes. One aspect of inequality is mobility: are individuals locked into their respective places in this distribution? To what extent do circumstances change, either over the lifecycle or across generations? Research not only measures inequality and mobility, but also analyzes the historical, economic, and social determinants of these outcomes and the effect of public policies. This volume explores the latest developments in the analysis of income and wealth distribution and mobility. The collection of twenty-three studies is divided into five sections. The first examines observed patterns of income inequality and shifts in the distribution of earnings and in other factors that contribute to it. The next examines wealth inequality, including a substantial discussion of the difficulties of defining and measuring wealth. The third section presents new evidence on the intergenerational transmission of inequality and the mechanisms that underlie it. The next section considers the impact of various policy interventions that are directed at reducing inequality. The final section addresses the challenges of combining household-level data, potentially from multiple sources such as surveys and administrative records, and aggregate data to study inequality, and explores ways to make survey data more comparable with national income accounts data.