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Wealth in America : = trends in wealth inequality /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Wealth in America :/ Lisa A. Keister.
Reminder of title:	trends in wealth inequality /
Author:	Keister, Lisa A.,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 307 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Income distribution - United States. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511625503
ISBN:	9780511625503 (ebook)

Wealth in America : = trends in wealth inequality /
Keister, Lisa A.,1968-

Wealth in America :trends in wealth inequality /Lisa A. Keister. - 1 online resource (x, 307 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

1. Wealth and Inequality -- 2. Measuring Trends in Wealth Inequality -- 3. Who Owns What? The Changing Distribution of Wealth -- 4. The Rich and Their Wealth -- 5. The Rest of the Distribution: The Middle Class and Poor -- 6. Are Americans Getting Richer? -- 7. The Impact of Social and Economic Trends on Inequality -- 8. Families and Wealth Inequality -- 9. Wealth Mobility -- 10. Conclusions and Implications -- Appendix. Research Design and Measurement Issues -- References -- Index.

Wealth ownership in the United States has always concentrated in the hands of a small minority of the population. Because of scarce data on wealth ownership, the nature of wealth ownership distribution and knowledge about wealth inequality has received little attention from social scientists. Keister synthesizes theory and data from various sources to present a picture of househould wealth distribution from 1962 to 1995. Utilizing existing survey data and a unique simulation model, she isolates and examines processes that create this distribution, paying particular attention to the wealth ownership and accumulation of top wealth holders, those who control the bulk of household wealth. She identifies trends in wealth mobility that are not possible to estimate with traditional research methods. The results underscore the importance of wealth as an indicator of well-being, identify important causes of wealth inequality, and propose methods of lessening the recent increase in the concentration of wealth.

ISBN: 9780511625503 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

576150
Income distribution
--United States.

LC Class. No.: HC110.I5 / K38 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 339.2/0973

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