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The changing distribution of earnings in OECD countries / A.B. Atkinson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Rodolfo Debenedetti lecturesPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008Description: xxiii, 480 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0199532435
  • 9780199532438
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 339.209177 22
LOC classification:
  • HC79.I5 A825 2008
Contents:
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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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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