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1 online resource (x, 388 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in income and wealth ; v. 49 |
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Studies in income and wealth ; v. 49.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 economy. Social security, private pension benefits, housing, and health care are traditional kinds of transfers. Accurate measurements of the degree and effect of these and of other, newly interpreted transfers are vital to economic policy making. Though this volume is not directly concer |
| Analysis |
United States Income Redistribution |
| Notes |
Papers presented at the Conference on Social Accounting for Transfers held in Madison, Wis., on 14-15 May, 1982 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Transfer payments -- United States
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Income distribution -- United States
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
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Income distribution
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Transfer payments
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Overdrachtsuitgaven.
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Inkomensverdeling.
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Metingen.
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Moon, Marilyn.
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Conference on Social Accounting for Transfers (1982 : Madison, Wis.)
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| ISBN |
9780226535067 |
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0226535061 |
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1281223840 |
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9781281223845 |
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9786611223847 |
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6611223843 |
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