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Demographic Aspects of the Distribution of Income among Families: Recent Trends in the United States

In: Econometrics and Economic Theory

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  • Simon Kuznets

    (Harvard University)

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Family income is the dominant component of the size distribution of income among a country’s population. As of March 1970, families accounted for 185 million out of a total population of the United States of 205 million — the rest being unattached persons and the institutional population.1 And if the family is defined, as it is in the basic source used here, as ‘a group of two or more persons related by blood, marriage or adoption and residing together’ [see S-III, p. 8], it is the unit that makes most decisions relating to employment, other sources of income and the disposition of income received — and is therefore the relevant recipient unit in the analysis of the size distribution of income. But this means that differences and changes in the structure of family units have direct bearing upon the income distribution.

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  • Simon Kuznets, 1974. "Demographic Aspects of the Distribution of Income among Families: Recent Trends in the United States," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Willy Sellekaerts (ed.), Econometrics and Economic Theory, chapter 11, pages 223-245, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-01936-6_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-01936-6_11
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    1. Alan S. Blinder & Irving Kristol & Wilbur J. Cohen, 1980. "The Level and Distribution of Economic Well-Being," NBER Chapters, in: The American Economy in Transition, pages 415-500, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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