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Changing inequalities in rich countries, analytical and comparative perspectives, edited by Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan, Daniele Checchi, Ive Marx, Abigail McKnight, István György Tóth, Herman van de Werfhorst

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Changing inequalities in rich countries

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edited by Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan, Daniele Checchi, Ive Marx, Abigail McKnight, István György Tóth, Herman van de Werfhorst

analytical and comparative perspectives

There has been a remarkable upsurge of debate about increasing inequalities and their societal implications, reinforced by the economic crisis but bubbling to the surface before it. This has been seen in popular discourse, media coverage, political debate, and research in the social sciences. The central questions addressed by this book, and the major research project GINI on which it is based, are: - Have inequalities in income, wealth and education increased over the past 30 years or so across the rich countries, and if so why? - What are the social, cultural and political impacts of increasing inequalities in income, wealth and education? - What are the implications for policy and for the future development of welfare states? In seeking to answer these questions, this book adopts an interdisciplinary approach that draws on economics, sociology, and political science, and applies this approach to learning from the experiences over the last three decades of European countries together with the USA, Japan, Canada, Australia, and South Korea. It combines comparative research with lessons from specific country experiences, and highlights the challenges in seeking to adequately assess the factors underpinning increasing inequalities and in identify the channels through which these may impact on key social and political outcomes, as well as the importance of framing inequality trends and impacts in the institutional and policy context of the country in question --, Provided by Publisher

Preface 1. Introduction, Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan, Daniele Checchi, Ive Marx, Abigail McKnight, Istvan Gyorgy Toth, and Herman G. van de Werfhorst 2. Increasing Economic Inequalities?, Francesco Bogliacino and Virginia Maestri 3. Earnings, Employment, and Income Inequality, Wiemer Salverda and Christina Haas 4. Wealth Inequality and the Accumulation of Debt, Virginia Maestri, Francesco Bogliacino, and Wiemer Salverda 5. Increasing Educational Inequalities?, Gabriele Ballarino, Massimiliano Bratti, Antonio Filippin, Carlo Fiorio, Marco Leonardi, and Francesco Scervini 6. The Social Impact of Income Inequality: Poverty, Deprivation, and Social Cohesion, Brian Nolan and Chris Whelan 7. Social Impacts: Health, Housing, and Inter-generational Mobility, Abigail McKnight and Frank Cowell 8. Rising Inequalities: Will Electorates Go for Higher Redistribution?, Istvan Gyorgy Toth, Daniel Horn, and Marton Medgyesi 9. Inequality, Legitimacy, and the Political System, Robert Andersen, Brian Burgoon, and Herman G. van de Werfhorst 10. The Policy Response to Inequality: Redistributing Income, Ive Marx and Tim van Rie 11. The Policy Response: Employment and Services, Ive Marx and Gerlinde Verbist 12. The Policy Response to Educational Inequalities, Daniele Checchi, Herman G. van de Werfhorst, Michela Braga, and Elena Meschi 13. Conclusions, Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan, Daniele Checchi, Ive Marx, Abigail McKnight, Istvan Gyorgy Toth, and Herman G. van de Werfhorst