Dimensions of Inequality in Canada

Herausgeber: Green, David A

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Produktbeschreibung

Canada is commonly portrayed as becoming a more and more polarized society. At the same time, Canadians pride themselves on taking better care of the disadvantaged than their neighbors to the south. This groundbreaking collection of essays by leading economists, sociologists, philosophers, and political scientists provides an overall assessment of the state of inequality in Canada.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 154mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 735g
• ISBN-13: 9780774812085
• ISBN-10: 0774812087
• Artikelnr.: 22538472

Autorenporträt

David A. Green is a professor of economics at the University of British Columbia. Jonathan R. Kesselman is Canada Research Chair in Public Finance with the Graduate Public Policy Program at Simon Fraser University.

Inhaltsangabe

Figures and Tables
1 Dimensions of Inequality in a Just Society / David A. Green and Jonathan
R. Kesselman
2 Normative Dimensions of Inequality / Colin M. Macleod and Avigail
Eisenberg
3 Rising Income Inequality in the 1990s: An Exploration of Three Data
Sources / Marc Frenette, David A. Green, and Garnett Picot
4 How Has Earnings Mobility in Canada Changed? / Charles M. Beach
5 Consumption Inequality in Canada / Thomas F. Crossley and Krishna
Pendakur
6 How Much Does Employment Matter for Inequality in Canada and Elsewhere? /
Lars Osberg
7 Inequalities in Political and Community Participation / James Curtis,
Edward Grabb, and Thomas Perks
8 Fitting Kids In: Children and Inequality in Canada / Shelley Phipps and
Lynn Lethbridge
9 Ethnic Inequality in Canada: Economic and Health Dimensions / Ellen M.
Gee, Karen M. Kobayashi, and Steven G. Prus
10 Recent Trends in Wage Inequality and the Wage Structure in Canada /
Brahim Boudarbat, Thomas Lemieux, and W. Craig Riddell
11 Gender Dimensions of Changes in Earnings Inequality in Canada / Nicole
M. Fortin and Tammy Schirle
12 Taxation Impacts on Inequality in Canada: Methodologies and Findings /
Jonathan R. Kesselman and Ron Cheung
13 Dis-embedding Liberalism? The New Social Policy Paradigm in Canada /
Keith G. Banting
Contributors
Index