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Personal Income Distribution A Multicapability Theory

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hartog, J.A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1981, 1981
Edition:1st ed. 1981
Subjects:
Labor Economics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 The Problem
  • 1.2 Some Facts
  • 1.3 Different Jobs, Different People
  • 1.4 Related Approaches
  • 1.5 Human Capital Theory
  • 1.6 Capabilities
  • 1.7 Outline of the Book
  • 2 Individual Labor Supply
  • 2.1 The Basic Model
  • 2.2 Occupational Careers
  • 2.3 Capability Development
  • 2.4 A Life-Cycle Labor Supply Model
  • 2.5 Evaluating Comments
  • 3 Labor Demand
  • 3.1 The Production Function
  • 3.2 Equilibrium of the Firm
  • 3.3 Some Comments
  • 3.4 Price Changes
  • 3.5 Evaluating Comments
  • 4 Market Equilibrium
  • 4.1 Divisibility
  • 4.2 Divisibility and Equilibrium
  • 4.3 Comparative Statics
  • 5 The Income Density Function
  • 5.1 The Earnings Function
  • 5.2 Optimal Efforts
  • 5.3 Age Distribution and Income Distribution
  • 5.4 Income Distribution and Income Tax Rate Changes
  • 5.5 Concluding Remarks
  • 6 A Two-Capability Illustration
  • 6.1 Labor Supply
  • 6.2 Labor Demand
  • 6.3 The Distribution of Income
  • 6.4 The Distribution of Job Wage Rates
  • 6.5 Effects of Income Tax Rate Changes
  • 6.6 Concluding Remarks
  • 7 On Testing
  • 7.1 Main Hypotheses and Their Testing
  • 7.2 Capabilities as Operational Variables
  • 7.3 The Distinction between Capability Stocks and Capability Supply
  • 7.4 Capabilities and Wages
  • 7.5 Capability Development
  • 7.6 Concluding Remarks
  • 8 Measurement and Testing on American Data
  • 8.1 The Data
  • 8.2 Reconnaissance: The 1970 Census Data
  • 8.3 Further Analysis: The 1950 and 1960 Census Data
  • 9 Evaluation and Expansion
  • Appendixes
  • 2 The Labor Demand Model
  • 3 Properties of Transformations
  • 4 Effects of Tax Rate Changes
  • 5 Explanation of DOT Variables
  • 6 The 1970 Census Data Set
  • 7 Distribution of Jobs by Capability Level
  • 8. Selection of Regression Results: 1950–1960 Census Data
  • Notes
  • References
  • List of Symbols
  • Name Index

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