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The causes and consequences of increasing inequality

Title: The causes and consequences of increasing inequality / edited by Finis Welch.
Publication: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors

Welch, Finis, 1938-2020.

Description

vi, 379 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The Bush School series in the economics of public policy ; v. 2

Uniform Title

Bush School series in the economics of public policy ; v. 2.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Introduction / Finis Welch -- 1. Trends in Wage Inequality in the United States / Donald R. Deere -- 2. Decreasing (and Increasing) Inequality in America: A Tale of Two Half-Centuries / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz -- 3. Why Is Wealth Inequality Rising? / James P. Smith -- 4. Earnings Inequality in International Perspective / Franco Peracchi -- 5. Mobility within and between Generations / Gary Solon -- 6. Schooling, Inequality, and the Impact of Government / Eric A. Hanushek and Julie A. Somers -- 7. Government Policy and Wage Inequality: Regulation, Incentives, and Opportunities / Marvin H. Kosters -- 8. Trade, Immigration, and Wage Distribution / William Cline -- 9. Industrial Change and the Demand for Skill / Kevin Murphy and Finis Welch -- 10. Inequalities in Income and Inequalities in Health / Angus Deaton -- 11. IQ, Success in Life, in Inequality: The Ambiguous Merits of Meritocracy / Charles Murray --
12. Wage Differentials in the 1990s: Is the Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty? / Kevin Murphy and Finis Welch.

ISBN

0226893014 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

00051220

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries