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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797110403321

Autore

Beach Charles M.

Titolo

Distribution of income and wealth in Ontario : theory and evidence / / Charles M. Beach ; with the collaboration of David E. Card and Frank Flatters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : Published for the Ontario Economic Council by University of Toronto Press, , 1981

©1981

ISBN

1-4426-5669-7

1-4426-3338-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Collana

Ontario Economic Council Research Studies, , 0708-3688 ; ; 21

Disciplina

339.2/09713

Soggetti

Income distribution - Ontario

Wealth - Ontario

Electronic books.

Ontario

Ontario Conditions economiques

Ontario Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- PART ONE: EXPLANATION OF INEQUALITY -- 2. Supply determinants and life-cycle behaviour -- 3. Selected demand-side determinants of the distribution of income -- 4. Distributional aggregation -- PART TWO: DATA ON DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME AND WEALTH -- 5. On measuring inequality -- 6. Incomes of individuals -- 7. Incomes of family units -- 8. Distribution of family wealth -- PART THREE: IMPUTATIONS AND ADJUSTMENTS TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME -- 9. Disposable income, under-reporting, and omitted receipts -- 10. Adjustment for cost of living and size of family -- 11. Adjustment for capital gains -- 12. Adjustment for family wealth holdings -- 13. Toward adjustment for net social security benefits: illustration with the Canada Pension Plan -- 14. Summary and conclusions -- APPENDICES



-- Bibliography -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides an extensive survey of recent literature and a new source of income and wealth distribution data for Ontario, drawn from newly available microdata sets. It also presents an evaluation of the data as a basis for measuring inequality in the distribution of economic and well-being.