02402nam a2200277 a 4500 1/38616 091023s2008 enka b 001 0 eng d 9780199532438 (ebook) 41260 GR-PeUP eng Atkinson, A. B. (Anthony Barnes) The changing distribution of earnings in OECD countries [electronic resource] / A.B. Atkinson. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. Ένα html e-book. The Rodolfo Debenedetti lectures ; This book is about how much people earn and why the distribution of earnings has been changing over time. The gap between the top and bottom in the United States has widened significantly since 1980. Why has this happened? Is it due to new technologies? What is the role of globalization? Are there historical precedents? The book begins with the 'race' between technology and education, and shows that continuing technical progress does not necessarily imply a continuing rise in dispersion. It then examines the experience of twenty OECD countries over the 20th century, material presented in the form of twenty country case studies. The book breaks new ground in assembling data on the distribution of individual earnings covering much of the 20th century and drawing on a variety of under-exploited sources. The findings overturn a number of widely-held beliefs. It is not the earnings of the low paid that have been most affected by the recent changes; widening is largely due to what is happening at the top. The recent rise in earnings dispersion is not unprecedented, but should be seen as part of a longer-run history of successive compression and expansion of earnings differences. Ηλεκτρονικό βιβλίο Τρόπος πρόσβασης μέσω διαδικτύου. Income distribution OECD countries. Income distribution OECD countries Econometric models. Electronic books. The Rodolfo Debenedetti lectures. INST UNIPILB EBOOKS 20100310 00b41260 00b41260 ONLINE 0 http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/economicsfinance/9780199532438/toc.html http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199532438.001.0001 /webopac/covers/02/41260_9780199532438.jpg (ebook)