Economic transfers in the United States / / edited by Marilyn Moon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910810316803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1984; ©1984
• ISBN: 1-281-22384-0; 9786611223847; 0-226-53506-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 388 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Studies in income and wealth ; ; v. 49
• Altri autori (Persone): MoonMarilyn
• Disciplina: 330 s 339.5/22; 339.522
• Soggetti: Income distribution - United States; Transfer payments - United States; United States Income Redistribution
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Papers presented at the Conference on Social Accounting for Transfers held in Madison, Wis., on 14-15 May, 1982.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- 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 -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 concerned with policy-making issues, it does impinge on many areas of current public concern; methods of transfer valuation, for example, may affect how we view the status of the aged. Researchers, policy analysts, and those who compile statistics on which social programs are based on will value the diverse approaches of these ten papers and their accompanying comments. Taken together the essays give great insight into the complexities of defining transfers and provide a wealth of new analytic methods. They were developed from material presented at the Income and Wealth Conference on Social Accounting for Transfers held at Madison, Wisconsin, in 1982.