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The Oxford handbook of economic inequality / edited by Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan and Timothy M. Smeeding.

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Comprehensive analysis of economic inequality in developed countries. The contributors give their view on the state-of-the-art scientific research in their fields and add their own visions of future research.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Salverda, Wiemer, Nolan, Brian, 1953-, Smeeding, Timothy M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:Oxford handbooks in economics.
Subjects:
Income distribution.
Social stratification.
Wealth.
Inkomstfördelning.
Social stratifiering.
Soziale Ungleichheit
Einkommensverteilung
Vermögensverteilung
Welt
Aufsatzsammlung.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan, and Timothy M. Smeeding
  • Equality: its justification, nature, and domain / John E. Roemer
  • The measurement of economic inequality / Stephen P. Jenkins and Philippe Van Kerm
  • Income inequality in richer and OECD countries / Andrea Brandolini and Timothy M. Smeeding
  • Functional distribution and inequality / Andrew Glyn
  • Wealth and economic inequality / James B. Davies
  • Top incomes / Andrew Leigh
  • Inequality and earning distribution / Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn
  • Inequality and the labor market: employers / Julia Lane
  • Inequality and the labor market: unions / Jelle Visser and Daniele Checchi
  • Low pay / Claudio Lucifora and Wiemer Salverda
  • Gender and economic inequality / Mary Gregory
  • Economic inequality, poverty, and social exclusion / Brian Nolan and Ive Marx
  • Inequality and time use in the household / Nancy Folbre
  • Inequality and happiness / Bernard Van Praag and Ada Ferrer-I-Carbonell
  • Health and economic inequality / Andrew Leigh, Christopher Jencks, and Timothy M. Smeeding
  • Education and inequality / Stephen Machin
  • Demographic transformation and economic inequality / Gary Burtless
  • International migration, ethnicity, and economic inequality / Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Intergenerational income mobility and the role of family background / Anders Björklund and Markus Jäntti
  • Intragenerational inequality and intertemporal mobility / Richard V. Burkhauser and Kenneth A. Couch
  • Inequality and economic growth / Sarah Voitchovsky
  • Globalization and inequality / Richard B. Freeman
  • Poverty and inequality: the global context / Francisco H.G. Ferreira and Martin Ravallion
  • Economic inequality and the welfare state / Gøsta Esping-Anderson and John Myles
  • The political economy of inequality and redistribution / Nolan McCarty and Jonas Pontusson
  • Prospects for achieving equality in market economies / John E. Roemer.

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