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Earnings capacity, poverty, and inequality /
Earnings Capacity, Poverty, and Inequality describes the development and application of a way to measure economic status that will avoid some mistakes occurring in methods of measurement. The book reviews the concept of earnings capacity through different measures of economic status. The authors dis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Academic Press,
�1977.
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| Colección: | Institute for Research on Poverty monograph series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Covre; Earnings Capacity, Poverty, and Inequality; Copyright Page; Table of Contents ; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1. Measuring Economic Status: The Concept of Earnings Capacity; Alternative Measures of Economic Status; The Present Study; Chapter 2. The Measurement of Earnings Capacity; Data and Methodology; Weaknesses in the Measure of Earnings Capacity; Chapter 3. Economic Inequality and the Utilization of Earnings Capacity; Aggregate Capacity Utilization and Its Components; Patterns of Capacity Utilization within the Nonaged Population; Earnings Capacity and Economic Inequality
- ConclusionsChapter 4. Earnings Capacity and Poverty; The Earnings Capacity Poor and the Current Income Poor; Determinants of Poverty Status Based on Earnings Capacity and Current Income; The Probability of Poverty Status for Various Family Types; Conclusions; Chapter 5. Earnings Capacity and the Target Efficiency of Income Transfer Policies; Chapter 6. Labor Market Discrimination and Black-White Differences in Economic Status; Racial Differences in Economic Status; The Role of Labor Market Discrimination; Conceptual Framework and Empirical Problems; Empirical Procedure and Assumptions
- Measuring the Effect of Labor Market DiscriminationEstimates of Labor Market Discrimination; Reliability of the Methodology; Labor Market Discrimination and the Distribution of Earnings Capacity; Labor Market Discrimination and Inequality; Conclusions; Chapter 7. Earnings Capacity and Economic Status: Summary; A Summary and Some Policy Implications; A Look Back and a Look Ahead; Appendix A: Estimating Lorenz Curves and Gini Coefficients; Appendix B: Effect of Randomization on Estimates of Earnings Capacity