The Changing Distribution of Earnings in OECD Countries |
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Author:
| Atkinson, A. B. |
Series title: | Rodolfo de Benedetti Lecture Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-953243-8 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2008 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $133.59AUD $188.95 |
Book Description:
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This book is about how much people earn and why the distribution of earnings has been changing over time. The gap between the top and bottom in the United States has widened significantly since 1980. Why has this happened? Is it due to new technologies? What is the role of globalization? The book examines the experience of 20 OECD countries over the twentieth century, and overturns a numbe of widely-held beliefs. It is not the low paid who have bee most affected; widening is largely...
More DescriptionThis book is about how much people earn and why the distribution of earnings has been changing over time. The gap between the top and bottom in the United States has widened significantly since 1980. Why has this happened? Is it due to new technologies? What is the role of globalization? The book examines the experience of 20 OECD countries over the twentieth century, and overturns a numbe of widely-held beliefs. It is not the low paid who have bee most affected; widening is largely due to what is happening at the top. The recent rise in earnings dispersion is not unprecedented, but should be seen as part of a longer-run history of successive compression and expansion of earnings differences.