Description
Book SynopsisThis important book is concerned with the evaluation of changes in income distribution and the analysis of tax and transfer systems.
The book begins with an introduction to the measurement of inequality and poverty, stressing the role of value judgements. The following six chapters deal with cross- sectional comparisons, including the analysis of a labour market model of income distribution, the choice of transfer system, marginal indirect tax reform, and the distributional effects of inflation. The next seven chapters are concerned with dynamic aspects of income distribution. These examine the complex relationship between cross-sectional and lifetime distributions, relative income mobility, and the effects of income mobility on temporary and permanent poverty.
The Dynamics of Inequality and Poverty will be essential reading for students and scholars of public sector economics, welfare economics and social economics, along with those directly concerned with policy formulation.
Trade Review'. . . this book is likely to be of most interest to specialists in income distribution and tax-transfer systems. Since many of the original articles are not easily accessible, it is convenient to have them brought together.' -- S.P. Jenkins, Journal of Economics
Table of ContentsContents: Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction and Outline 2. Measuring Inequality and Poverty Part II: Cross-sectional Comparisons 3. Cross-sectional comparisons 4. A Model of Income Distribution 5. Comparing Transfer Systems 6. Poverty with Threshold Consumption 7. Indirect Tax Reform 8. The Distributional Effects of Inflation Part III: Income Dynamics 9. Income Dynamics 10. Mobility and Inequality 11. Income Dynamics over the Life Cycle 12. Evaluating Income Tax Changes 13. Income Taxation and the Time Period 14. Mobility and Social Welfare 15. Poverty over Two Periods Index
