Distribution of Income and Wealth in Ontario : : Theory and Evidence / / Charles Beach, Frank Flatters, David Card.

Distribution analysis has advanced remarkably in recent years, and this is a valuable application of its principles to a Canadian context. The book provides an extensive survey of recent literature and a new source of income and wealth distribution data for Ontario, drawn from newly available microd...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1981
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • PART ONE: EXPLANATION OF INEQUALITY
  • 2. Supply determinants and life-cycle behaviour
  • 3. Selected demand-side determinants of the distribution of income
  • 4. Distributional aggregation
  • PART TWO: DATA ON DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME AND WEALTH
  • 5. On measuring inequality
  • 6. Incomes of individuals
  • 7. Incomes of family units
  • 8. Distribution of family wealth
  • PART THREE: IMPUTATIONS AND ADJUSTMENTS TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME
  • 9. Disposable income, under-reporting, and omitted receipts
  • 10. Adjustment for cost of living and size of family
  • 11. Adjustment for capital gains
  • 12. Adjustment for family wealth holdings
  • 13. Toward adjustment for net social security benefits: illustration with the Canada Pension Plan
  • 14. Summary and conclusions
  • APPENDICES
  • Bibliography
  • Backmatter