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New Perspectives on Income Inequality in BC

Author : Marc Lee
Publisher : Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives
ISBN 13 : 0886274079
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on Income Inequality in BC written by Marc Lee and published by Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives. This book was released on 2004 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We consider the changes in BC inequality in a number of different ways: broad trends using the gini coefficient (the most common summary index of inequality); changes in incomes for different income groups; the shares of income accruing to each income group; and, the ratio of incomes at the top, bottom and middle of the distribution. [...] A large part of the increase in inequality stems from the near-collapse of incomes at the bottom of the distribution. [...] If changes in inequality appear more at the top or bottom of the distribution, they may not be adequately captured by the gini.3 This paper also examines changes in the average income of different income groups over time, and the ratio of the average income at the top, bottom and middle of the distribution. [...] For the bottom five vingtiles (25% of the population), the absolute decline in income (not shown) was greater after taxes and transfers than it was for market income.7 To further illustrate the changes over time, Figure 4a shows that the changes in average income for the bottom vingtile are not aberrations for the year 2000. [...] As a result of the gains at the top and losses at the bottom, the ratio of market incomes of the top vingtile to the bottom vingtile grew dramatically over the 1992-2000 period.

Income Inequality

Author : David Alan Green
Publisher : Art of the State
ISBN 13 : 9780886453299
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Income Inequality written by David Alan Green and published by Art of the State. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rising income inequality has been at the forefront of public debate in Canada in recent years, yet there is still much to be learned about the economic forces driving the distribution of earnings and income in this country and how they might evolve in coming years. With research showing that the tax-and-transfer system is less effective than in the past in counteracting growing income disparities, the need for policy-makers to understand the factors at play is all the more urgent. The Institute for Research on Public Policy, in collaboration with the Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network, has gathered some of the country’s leading experts to provide new evidence on the causes and effects of rising income inequality in Canada and to consider the role of policy. Their research and analysis constitutes a comprehensive review of Canadian inequality trends in recent decades, including changing earnings and income dynamics among middle--class and top earners, wage and job polarization across provinces, and persistent poverty among vulnerable groups. The authors also examine the changing role of education and unionization, as well as the complex interplay of redistributive policies and politics, in order to propose new directions for policy. Amid growing anxieties about the economic prospects of the middle class, Income Inequality: The Canadian Story will inform the public discourse on this issue of central concern for all Canadians."--Publisher's website.

Globalization, Poverty, and Income Inequality

Author : Richard Barichello
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774865644
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Globalization, Poverty, and Income Inequality written by Richard Barichello and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of globalization has implications for human rights, though the relationship between the two is not always clear. How does globalization effect human rights in local contexts? Globalization, Poverty, and Income Inequality examines the relationships between globalization and trade liberalization, and poverty and income inequality, using Indonesia as a case study. This empirically rigorous investigation finds that although increased trade tends to reduce poverty, there are exceptions. For example, globalization via trade in certified organic coffee has not helped low-income farmers. And globalized access to treatments for visual problems has been countermanded by rising digitization that negatively affects the visually disabled poor. Ultimately, the chapters describe an ambiguous relationship between trade liberalization and inequality, both of which can increase or decrease in proportion to one another depending on region and sector. This empirically driven work provides a nuanced view of the trade-poverty relationship, contributing balanced testimony to policy debates being held internationally.

Jobs with Inequality

Author : John Peters
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442665122
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Jobs with Inequality written by John Peters and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Income inequality has skyrocketed in Canada over the past few decades. The rich have become richer, while the average household income has deteriorated and job quality has plummeted. Common explanations for these trends point to globalization, technology, or other forces largely beyond our control. But, as Jobs with Inequality shows, there is nothing inevitable about inequality. Rather, runaway inequality is the result of politics and policies - what governments have done to aid the rich and boost finance and what they have not done to uphold the interests of workers. Drawing on new tax and income data, John Peters tells the story of how inequality is unfolding in Canada today by examining post-democracy, financialization, and labour market deregulation. Timely and novel, Jobs with Inequality explains how and why business and government have rewritten the rules of the economy to the advantage of the few, and considers why progressive efforts to reverse these trends have so regularly run aground.

Social Inequality in Canada

Author : Alan Stewart Frizzell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0886292794
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Social Inequality in Canada written by Alan Stewart Frizzell and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Inequality in Canada brings a comparative perspective to the question of the uniqueness of Canadian society. Do Canadians believe they can succeed on the basis of their own abilities? And how do they compare with Americans, Germans, Italians, Australians and Russians? There is much debate as to how Canadians differ from or resemble citizens of other countries, particularly the United States.

Communities in Action

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309452961
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Unequal We Stand

Author : Jonathan Heathcote
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437934919
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Unequal We Stand written by Jonathan Heathcote and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors conducted a systematic empirical study of cross-sectional inequality in the U.S., integrating data from various surveys. The authors follow the mapping suggested by the household budget constraint from individual wages to individual earnings, to household earnings, to disposable income, and, ultimately, to consumption and wealth. They document a continuous and sizable increase in wage inequality over the sample period. Changes in the distribution of hours worked sharpen the rise in earnings inequality before 1982, but mitigate its increase thereafter. Taxes and transfers compress the level of income inequality, especially at the bottom of the distribution, but have little effect on the overall trend. Charts and tables. This is a print-on-demand publication; it is not an original.

Nature's Northwest

Author : William G. Robbins
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816529590
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Nature's Northwest written by William G. Robbins and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twentieth century, the greater Northwest was ablaze with change and seemingly obsessed with progress. The promotional literature of the time praising railroads, population increases, and the growing sophistication of urban living, however, ignored the reality of poverty and ethnic and gender discrimination. During the course of the next century, even with dramatic changes in the region, one constant remainedÑ inequality. With an emphasis on the regionÕs political economy, its environmental history, and its cultural and social heritage, this lively and colorful history of the Pacific NorthwestÑdefined here as Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and southern British ColumbiaÑplaces the narrative of this dynamic region within a national and international context. Embracing both Canadian and American stories in looking at the larger region, renowned historian William Robbins and Katrine Barber offer us a fascinating regional history through the lens of both the environment and society. Understanding the physical landscape of the greater Pacific NorthwestÑand the watersheds of the Columbia, Fraser, Snake, and Klamath riversÑsets the stage for understanding the development of the area. Examining how this landscape spawned sawmills, fish canneries, railroads, logging camps, agriculture, and shared immigrant and ethnic traditions reveals an intricate portrait of the twentieth-century Northwest. Impressive in its synthesis of myriad historical facts, this first-rate regional history will be of interest to historians studying the region from a variety of perspectives and an informative read for anyone fascinated by the story of a landscape rich in diversity, natural resources, and Native culture.

New Horizons in Health

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309072964
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book New Horizons in Health written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-03-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Horizons in Health discusses how the National Institutes of Health (NIH) can integrate research in the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences to better understand the causes of disease as well as interventions that promote health. It outlines a set of research priorities for consideration by the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), with particular attention to research that can support and complement the work of the National Institutes of Health. By addressing the range of interactions among social settings, behavioral patterns, and important health concerns, it highlights areas of scientific opportunity where significant investment is most likely to improve nationalâ€"and globalâ€"health outcomes. These opportunities will apply the knowledge and methods of the behavioral and social sciences to contemporary health needs, and give attention to the chief health concerns of the general public.

Globalization and Poverty

Author : Ann Harrison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226318001
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Poverty written by Ann Harrison and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.

Inequality and the Fading of Redistributive Politics

Author : Keith Banting
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774826010
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Inequality and the Fading of Redistributive Politics written by Keith Banting and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The redistributive state is fading in Canada. Government programs are no longer offsetting the growth in inequality generated by the market. In this book, leading political scientists, sociologists, and economists point to the failure of public policy to contain surging income inequality. A complex mix of forces has reshaped the politics of social policy, including global economic pressures, ideological change, shifts in the influence of business and labour, changes in the party system, and the decline of equality-seeking civil society organizations. This volume demonstrates that action and inaction policy change and policy drift are at the heart of growing inequality in Canada.

BC's Regional Divide: How Tax and Spending Policies Affect BC Communities

Author : Marc Lee
Publisher : Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives
ISBN 13 : 0886274168
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book BC's Regional Divide: How Tax and Spending Policies Affect BC Communities written by Marc Lee and published by Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives. This book was released on 2005 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health care cuts affect Williams Lake hospital, 2004. Community Health Councils and their replacement with a limited number of Health Authorities. Changes in Residential Care (RC), Assisted Living (AL) and Acute Care (AC) Beds by Region, 2001-2004. "When rural hospitals close, and access to maternity care and other services is lost, lost, it sets in motion a domino effect. Rural communities will find it more difficult to recruit and retain physicians (who rightly want to practice the full spectrum of care, which requires hospital support). And patients have even more limited alternatives in terms of access to care.", pg 36 of report.

The Hidden Costs of Health Care Wage Cuts in BC

Author : Marc Lee
Publisher : Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives
ISBN 13 : 088627415X
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Costs of Health Care Wage Cuts in BC written by Marc Lee and published by Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives. This book was released on 2004 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction; Prelude to a Wage Cut; The Sample of HEU Workers; Individual and Family Impacts of the Wage Cuts; Organizational Impacts of the Wage Cuts; Conclusion; Appendix A: Survey Questions; Appendix B: Recruitment and Retention of Care Aides; Notes; References.

The Legal Tender of Gender

Author : Shelley A. M. Gavigan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847315623
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Legal Tender of Gender written by Shelley A. M. Gavigan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensive welfare, law and policy reforms characterised the making and unmaking of Keynesian states in the twentieth century. This collection highlights the gendered nature of these regulatory shifts and, specifically, the roles played by women as reformers, welfare workers and welfare recipients, in the development of welfare states historically. The contributors are leading feminist socio-legal scholars from a range of disciplines in Canada, the United States and Israel. Collectively, their analyses of women, law and poverty speak to long-standing and ongoing feminist concerns: the importance of historically informed research, the relevance of women's agency and resistance to the experience of inequality and injustice, the specificity of the experience of poor women and poor mothers, the implications of changes to social policy, and the possibilities for social change. Such analyses are particularly timely as the devastation of neo-liberalism becomes increasingly obvious. The current world crisis of capitalism is a defining moment for liberal states – a global catastrophe that concomitantly creates a window of opportunity for critical scholars and activists to reframe debates about social welfare, work, and equality, and to reinsert the discourse of social justice into the public consciousness and political agendae of liberal democracies.

BC Solutions Budget 2005

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Publisher : Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives
ISBN 13 : 0886274117
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book BC Solutions Budget 2005 written by and published by Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives. This book was released on 2005 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real brunt of the cuts has been borne by the most economically and socially vulnerable people in the province. [...] The real brunt of the cuts has Second, we need to invest in the people and infrastructure of the been borne by the most province to address unmet needs and a growing social deficit. [...] And we fear that the NDP (like the Liberals) are refusing to entertain a reversal of upper-income tax cuts and the need to reinvest in public services. [...] In addition to this, we have made the following updates not included in the recent quarterly reports: • New funding out of the September federal-provincial health accord does not appear in the most recent quarterly update, and has been added to federal transfers on the revenue side and to the health care budget on the expenditure side (i.e. [...] The 2002/03 deficit of $2.7 billion (prior to a major This finding underpins the need accounting adjustment) topped the previous record by the Socred government in 1991/92 of a $2.3 billion deficit (although as a to re-invest in the public sector.

Consumption and Social Welfare

Author : Daniel T. Slesnick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521497205
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Consumption and Social Welfare written by Daniel T. Slesnick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to be accessible to noneconomists, it relegates technical details to appendixes."--BOOK JACKET.

A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309483980
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults. Capable, responsible, and healthy adults are clearly the foundation of a well-functioning and prosperous society, yet America's future is not as secure as it could be because millions of American children live in families with incomes below the poverty line. A wealth of evidence suggests that a lack of adequate economic resources for families with children compromises these children's ability to grow and achieve adult success, hurting them and the broader society. A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty reviews the research on linkages between child poverty and child well-being, and analyzes the poverty-reducing effects of major assistance programs directed at children and families. This report also provides policy and program recommendations for reducing the number of children living in poverty in the United States by half within 10 years.