A B Atkinson

Gebundenes Buch

The Changing Distribution of Earnings in OECD Countries

Beschreibung

Everyone is interested in what people are paid. This book examines the distribution of earnings and how it has changed over time in different countries. The author presents new theories, arguing that the race between technology and education need not lead to an explosion of salaries, and showing how models of superstars and of pyramids can be used to explain why top earnings first fell and then rose. The book contains a new collection of earnings data, covering twenty OECD countries (with detailed case studies) and a long sweep of years. The book starts from the increase in earnings dispersion in Anglo-Saxon countries since 1980, but it considers also the great compression of the 1940s, the Golden Age of the 1950s, and the impact of May 1968. This book examines what people are paid and how pay differences have changed over time. The author presents new theories that challenge current thinking on the impact of education, technology, globalization and the rigidity of labour markets. Beginning with an accessible introduction, it then provides a model and new empirical data for 20 countries

Autor

Sir Tony Atkinson has been Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford, from 1994 to 2005. He was previously Tooke Professor at the London School of Economics, and founder Editor of the Journal of Public Economics. He has previously been President of the Econometric Society, of the European Economic Association, the Royal Economic Society, and the International Economic Association.

Produktdetails

• The Rodolfo De Benedetti Lecture Series
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 915g
• ISBN-13: 9780199532438
• ISBN-10: 0199532435
• Artikelnr.: 23518416

Rezensionen

This book demonstrates his continued mastery of the minutiae of longitudinal data sets...[..] if the source material were not reason enough to read this book...it's fresh challenge to conventional wisdom on the matter of earnings dispersion should be. John Philpot, Chief economist, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) The Business Economist