Income Inequality in America: An Analysis of Trends - An Analysis of Trends

Paul Ryscavage, a noted labor economist, seeks to analyze various aspects of a major contemporary economic problem: the growing inequality of income in society.
What is income inequality? How is it measured? Is the middle class really declining? How does it relate to poverty? How long has inequality been rising in the US? Have there been other periods in history when income differences were as large as they are today? What are the causes of growing income and wage inequality? The author addresses these and other conceptual issues in eight carefully reasoned and clearly presented chapters. Concluding with an analysis and comparison of trends in wage inequality in other developed countries, he asks the final speculative question: How much more growth in inequality can our society withstand?

List of contents

Chapter 1 The Income Distribution: Incomes as Outcomes; Chapter 2 Concepts and Methods of Inequality Analysis; Chapter 3 Inequality in the Post–World War II Era; Chapter 4 Trends in Earnings and Earnings Inequality; Chapter 5 Suggested Causes of Growing Inequality; Chapter 6 Inequality Before 1950; Chapter 7 International Comparisons; Chapter 8 The Future;

About the author

Ryscavage, Paul

Summary

In this volume, the author seeks to analyze various aspects of growing inequality of income in society. What is income inequality? How is it measured? How does it relate to poverty? The author addresses these and other conceptual issues in the book.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Ryscavage, Ryscavage Paul
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.1998
• EAN: 9780765602336
• ISBN: 978-0-7656-0233-6
• No. of pages: 242
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics, Social groups, macroeconomics, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, Sociology: work & labour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Social discrimination and social justice, Social groups, communities and identities