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Economic transfers in the United States /

In recent years the definition of an economic transfer-a payment to an individual or institution that does not arise out of current productive activity-has been subject to even wider interpretation. This volume addresses that trend and introduces new methods of measuring transfers in the American ec...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Collectivité auteur: Conference on Social Accounting for Transfers
Autres auteurs: Moon, Marilyn
Format: Électronique Actes de congrès eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1984.
Collection:Studies in income and wealth ; v. 49.
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Table des matières:
  • Economic Transfers in the United States; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Transfers in a Total Incomes System of Accounts; 2. An Accounting Framework for Transfer Payments and Its Implications for the Size Distribution of Income; 3. Transfer Elements in the Taxation of Income from Capital; 4. Approaches to Measuring and Valuing In-Kind Subsidies and the Distribution of Their Benefits; 5. The Effect of Different Measures of Benefit on Estimates of the Distributive Consequences of Government Programs; 6. The Role of Time in the Measurement of Transfers and Well-Being
  • 7. Income Transfers and the Economic Status of the Elderly 8. The Role of Income Transfers in Reducing Inequality between and within Regions; 9. Trends in Social Security Wealth by Cohort; 10. Raising the Normal Retirement Age under Social Security: A Life-Cycle Analysis; List of Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index