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Distribution of Income and Wealth in Ontario
Theory and Evidence
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Charles Beach
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English
Published/Copyright:
1981
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This 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.
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Beach Charles :
Charles M. Beach is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Economics at Queen's University, Ontario.
Flatters Frank :Frank Flatters is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Economics at Queen's University.
Card David :David E. Card is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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1. Introduction
1 - PART ONE: EXPLANATION OF INEQUALITY
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2. Supply determinants and life-cycle behaviour
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3. Selected demand-side determinants of the distribution of income
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4. Distributional aggregation
74 - PART TWO: DATA ON DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME AND WEALTH
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5. On measuring inequality
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6. Incomes of individuals
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7. Incomes of family units
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8. Distribution of family wealth
181 - PART THREE: IMPUTATIONS AND ADJUSTMENTS TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME
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9. Disposable income, under-reporting, and omitted receipts
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10. Adjustment for cost of living and size of family
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11. Adjustment for capital gains
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12. Adjustment for family wealth holdings
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13. Toward adjustment for net social security benefits: illustration with the Canada Pension Plan
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14. Summary and conclusions
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APPENDICES
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Bibliography
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Backmatter
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December 15, 1981
eBook ISBN:
9781442656697
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
400
eBook ISBN:
9781442656697
Audience(s) for this book
College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
