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The Level and Distribution of Economic Well-Being

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  • Alan S. Blinder

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This paper summarizes and critically evaluates what is known about postwar trends in both the level and distribution of economic well-being. Although certain non-income aspects of well-being are considered, the primary focus is on the level and inequality of income. Considerable attention is paid to recent controversies over the effects of transfers in kind and changing life-cycle income patterns on the overall trend in income inequality.

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Paper provided by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc in its series NBER Working Papers with number 0488.

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Date of creation: Mar 1981
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Publication status: published as Alan S. Blinder, Irving Kristol, Wilbur J. Cohen. "The Level and Distribution of Economic Well-Being," in Martin Feldstein, ed., "The American Economy in Transition" University of Chicago Press (1980)
Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:0488

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  1. Thomas Lemieux, 2007. "The Changing Nature of Wage Inequality," NBER Working Papers 13523, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. R. D. Plotnick & E. Smolensky & E. Evenhouse & S. Reilly, . "The Twentieth Century Record of Inequality and Poverty in the United States," Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers 1166-98, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty.
  3. Joel Slemrod, 1998. "The Economics of Taxing the Rich," NBER Working Papers 6584, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. von Weizsacker, Robert K., 1996. "Distributive implications of an aging society," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 40(3-5), pages 729-746, April.

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