Economic transfers in the United States / edited by Marilyn Moon.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Moon, Marilyn.

Conference Name:

Conference on Social Accounting for Transfers (1982 : Madison, Wis.)

Series:

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 49.

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution--United States.

Income distribution.

Transfer payments--United States.

Transfer payments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 388 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1984.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years the definition of an economic transfer-a payment to an individual or institution that does not arise out of current productive activity-has been subject to even wider interpretation. This volume addresses that trend and introduces new methods of measuring transfers in the American economy. Social security, private pension benefits, housing, and health care are traditional kinds of transfers. Accurate measurements of the degree and effect of these and of other, newly interpreted transfers are vital to economic policy making. Though this volume is not directly concerned with policy-making issues, it does impinge on many areas of current public concern; methods of transfer valuation, for example, may affect how we view the status of the aged. Researchers, policy analysts, and those who compile statistics on which social programs are based on will value the diverse approaches of these ten papers and their accompanying comments. Taken together the essays give great insight into the complexities of defining transfers and provide a wealth of new analytic methods. They were developed from material presented at the Income and Wealth Conference on Social Accounting for Transfers held at Madison, Wisconsin, in 1982.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Transfers in a Total Incomes System of Accounts

2. An Accounting Framework for Transfer Payments and Its Implications for the Size Distribution of Income

3. Transfer Elements in the Taxation of Income from Capital

4. Approaches to Measuring and Valuing In-Kind Subsidies and the Distribution of Their Benefits

5. The Effect of Different Measures of Benefit on Estimates of the Distributive Consequences of Government Programs

6. The Role of Time in the Measurement of Transfers and Well-Being

7. Income Transfers and the Economic Status of the Elderly

8. The Role of Income Transfers in Reducing Inequality between and within Regions

9. Trends in Social Security Wealth by Cohort

10. Raising the Normal Retirement Age under Social Security: A Life-Cycle Analysis

Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Papers presented at the Conference on Social Accounting for Transfers held in Madison, Wis., on 14-15 May, 1982.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611223847

9781281223845

1281223840

9780226535067

0226535061

OCLC:

212909599