Welfare: Inequality & Poverty

Paul Marshall

Chapter 7 in Understanding the UK Economy, 1990, pp 236-265 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Even at the crudest level no assessment of the well-being of a society can have much credibility unless it takes some account of the distribution of income as well as its aggregate total (Morris and Preston, 1986).

Keywords: Gini Coefficient; Lorenz Curve; Social Security System; State Pension; Retirement Pension (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-20586-8_8

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