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Zusatztext "I recommend this book . . . to anyone interested in why income inequality has increased so markedly over the last 30 years." Informationen zum Autor Rebecca M. Blank is former Robert Kerr Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and former Dean of the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Most recently! she coedited Insufficient Funds: Savings! Asset! Credit and Banking Among Low-Income Households and Working and Poor: How Economic and Policy Changes are Affecting Low-Wage Workers. She is also the author of It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty! among other books. Klappentext "Changing Inequality is a must read book for all serious social scientists. The answers offered in this book! by one of the top social scientists in the country! will surprise you and lead you to rethink your beliefs in the efficacy of public policy in reducing inequality." -Timothy M. Smeeding! University of Wisconsin-Madison "Rebecca Blank has written the authoritative guide to the basic data describing U.S. income inequality. Her analysis of the trends that drive inequality - changes in the wage structure! work behavior and family structure - will be economic researchers' go-to source for many years to come." -Frank Levy! Massachusetts Institute of Technology Zusammenfassung Offers a comprehensive analysis of an economic trend that has been reshaping the United States over the years: rapidly rising income inequality. This title provides an overview of how and why the level and distribution of income and wealth has changed since 1979, and investigates the forces that are driving it. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Changes in Income and Earnings 1. A Broader Look at Changing Inequality 2. Changing Inequality in Annual Earnings and Its Components 3. Changing Inequality in Total Income and Its Components 4. Understanding These Changes Part II. Can Inequality be Reduced? 5. How Economic Shocks Change Income Distribution 6. Ways to Reduce Inequality (and Their Limits) 7. Changing Inequality in the United States Today Appendix 1. Details of the Chapter 2 Simulation and Appendix Figures Appendix 2. Income Components by Decile Appendix 3. Details of the Chapter 4 Simulations Appendix 4. Details of the Chapter 6 Simulations Notes References Index ...
