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Poverty and economic inequality in industrialized Western societies
- Title
- Poverty and economic inequality in industrialized Western societies / edited by Nico Keilman [and others].
- Publication
- Oslo : Scandinavian University Press, 1997.
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- Additional Authors
- Keilman, Nico.
- Description
- vi, 334 pages : graphs, tables; 22 cm
- Summary
- Comprises 13 papers which discuss poverty and economic inequality in industrialized Western countries.
- Subject
- Poverty
- Equality
- Income distribution
- Public welfare
- Social security
- poverty
- welfare services
- Equality
- Income distribution
- Poverty
- Public welfare
- Social security
- Armoede
- income distribution
- social class
- standard of living
- measurement
- methodology
- household income
- low income
- household expenditure
- quality of life
- family benefit
- women
- social assistance
- social mobility
- income redistribution
- statistical table
- pauvreté
- répartition du revenu
- classe sociale
- niveau de vie
- mesure
- méthodologie
- revenu des ménages
- faible revenu
- dépenses des ménages
- qualité de la vie
- prestations familiales
- femmes
- assistance sociale
- mobilité sociale
- redistribution du revenu
- tableau statistique
- pobreza
- distribución del ingreso
- clase social
- nivel de vida
- medición
- metodología
- ingreso de los hogares
- bajos ingresos
- gasto de los hogares
- calidad de la vida
- prestaciones familiares
- mujeres
- asistencia social
- movilidad social
- redistribución del ingreso
- cuadros estadísticos
- developed countries
- pays développés
- países desarrollados
- Genre/Form
- bibliography.
- graph.
- recommendation.
- bibliographie.
- graphique.
- recommandation.
- bibliografía.
- gráfico.
- recomendación.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface -- 1 Poverty and Economic Inequality: Concepts, Measures, and Methods (starting p. 3) / Jan Lyngstad, Nico Keilman, Hilde Bojer -- 2 Why and How Do We Study Poverty in Industrialized Countries? Various Approaches to the Study of Poverty (starting p. 35) / Jonathan Bradshaw -- 3 Confusions between Goals and Methods in the Construction and Use of Poverty Lines (starting p. 57) / John Veit-Wilson -- 4 Poverty Lines and Equivalence Scales: A Theoretical and Empirical Evaluation (starting p. 83) / Bernard M.S. van Praag, Robert J. Flik, Pieter J.A. Stam -- 5 Effects on Poverty, Inequality, and Welfare of Child Benefit and Food Subsidies (starting p. 123) / Jorgen Aasness -- 6 A Women's Perspective on Poverty: Household Work, Income Distribution, and Social Welfare (starting p. 141) / Charlotte Koren, Iulie Aslaksen -- 7 The Incidence and Evolution of Poverty According to Objective and Subjective Standards (starting p. 157) / Ruud Muffels -- 8 The "Zero-sum Crisis": Stability in the Distribution of Income and Welfare in a Period of Economic Crisis (starting p. 183) / Bea Cantillon -- 9 Secondary Poverty in the Welfare State. Do Social Security Institutions Create Their Own Clients? (starting p. 205) / Lutz Leisering, Wolfgang Voges -- 10 The Poor in Comparative Perspective (starting p. 235) / Lee Rainwater -- 11 No Pain, No Gain? Inequality and Economic Mobility in the United States, Canada, and Europe (starting p. 257) / Greg J. Duncan -- 12 Poverty and Social Security Transfers: Results for Seven Countries and Regions in the EC (starting p. 277) / Karel Van den Bosch, Lieve De Lathouwer, Herman Deleeck -- 13 The Experience of Income Redistribution (starting p. 309) / Stein Ringen -- Contributors (starting p. 323) -- Subject index (starting p. 325) -- Person index (starting p. 331)
- ISBN
- 8200224937
- 9788200224938
- OCLC
- ocm40097988
- 40097988
- SCSB-1030900
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library