Del i serien International Policy Exchange

United States Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Over the past 75 years, household income in the United States has increased substantially. Still, by some measures, income inequality has increased as well. This has been the subject of contested public policy and political discourse. The question still stands: How can we better articulate the nuanced changes in American incomes? It is difficult to have conversations about income inequality without an agreed-upon set of terms, metrics, and concepts. United States Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality, edited by Diana Furchtgott-Roth, examines the trends in income growth in the United States and explores various measures of income, including market, post-tax, and post-transfer income. Within each chapter, distinguished experts explain how income and wealth--and the way we measure them--have changed in the United States, which demographic groups have benefited from these changes, and how mobility has changed over time and over generations. Specific chapters explain the roles of gender and race. The resulting book is relevant to modern international policy, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, and addresses what can be done to increase economic mobility in the United States.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-10-16
Mått236 x 163 x 25 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieInternational Policy Exchange
Antal sidor304
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197518199

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Introduction, Diana Furchtgott-Roth Chapter 1: The Ins and Outs of Measuring Income Inequality in the United States, Steven RoseChapter 2: Income and Wealth Inequality: Evidence and Policy Implications, Emmanuel SaezChapter 3: Improving Economic Opportunity in the United States, Jared BernsteinChapter 4: Income Growth and its Distribution from Eisenhower to Obama: The Growing Importance of In-Kind Transfers (1959-2016), James Elwell, Kevin Corinth, and Richard V. BurkhauserChapter 5: Top Income Shares and the Difficulties of Using Tax Data, Gerald Auten and David SplinterChapter 6: The Effects of the Movement of Women into the Workforce on Income Trends, Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Beila LeboeufChapter 7: Explaining Race and Gender Wage Gaps, June O'Neill and Dave O'NeillChapter 8: The Distribution of Wealth in America, 1983-2013, John C. WeicherChapter 9: Public Opinion on Inequality, Karlyn Bowman and Eleanor O'NeilChapter 10: Economics of Inequality in High-Wage Economies, Edward Conard

Furchgott-Roth has brought together contributions from experts across government and the private sector examining the measurement of income, what should be included in such measurement, and the effects of taxes and transfers on incentives and inequality. The contributions are readable, and the accompanying tables and graphs are relevant and easy to follow. Furchgott-Roth's introduction addresses the relevance of this topic in the context of the current pandemic.