Tackling inequality
By: Richard Layard.
Publisher: Macmillan Press; St. Martin's Press; Springer; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 530
Subjects: Poor -- Employment -- Great Britain.; Poor -- Employment -- Europe, Eastern.; Labor supply -- Effect of education on -- Great Britain.; Labor supply -- Effect of education on -- Europe, Eastern.; Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern.
Description: "The two most obvious ways of tackling inequality are through education and by redistributing cash. But in each case we need to weigh up the gain in equality against any loss of efficiency which may result."--BOOK JACKET.

"Layard shows how to do this. He focuses on lifetime incomes as the natural basis for thinking about inequality, and shows how lifetime incomes are affected by education. Viewed in the context of lifetime rather than annual income, education is a more powerful tool when compared with cash redistribution."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.