Contents: 1. What is happening to the distribution of income in the UK? -- 2. Income distribution in European countries / Lee Rainwater, Tim Smeeding and A.B. Atkinson -- 3. Poverty, statistics and progress in Europe -- 4. Comparing poverty rates internationally: recent studies in OECD countries -- 5. Two nations in early retirement? The case of Britain / Holly Sutherland and A.B. Atkinson -- 6. Is the Welfare State necessarily a barrier to economic growth? -- 7. A national minimum? A history of ambiguity in the determination of benefit scales in Britain -- 8. The development of state pensions in the United Kingdom -- 9. Income maintenance for the unemployed in Britain and the response to high unemployment -- 10. Institutional features of unemployment insurance and the working of the labour market -- 11. Social insurance -- 12. On targeting and family benefits -- 13. The Western experience with social safety nets -- 14. Towards a European social safety net?

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