The changing distribution of earnings in OECD countries / A.B. Atkinson.
Material type: TextSeries: Rodolfo Debenedetti lecturesPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008Description: xxiii, 480 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0199532435
- 9780199532438
- 339.209177 22
- HC79.I5 A825 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 434-470) and index.
Part I. The Lecture -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The race between technology and education- the textbook model -- 3. Taking data seriously - where the data come from and how we should use them -- 4. The changes in dispersion since 1980 -- 5. Recent history in full - was there a lull before the storm? -- 6. A longer-run view of the earnings distribution - the Great Compression and the Golden Age -- 7. What we are seeking to explain -- 8. A behavioural model of change in pay differentials - the "fanning out" at the top of the earnings distribution -- 9. Superstars and pyramids - two complementary explanations for changes in top earnings -- 10. Conclusions -- Part II. Details of the Models -- Part III. New Empirical Evidence for 20 OECD Countries.
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