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Informationen zum Autor Wiemer Salverda initiated the LoWER network in 1995 to bring together Europe's leading scholars on low pay and earnings inequality. With the help of the European Community's research funding, the network has been a prolific organizer of meetings and a fertile producer of publications. Moving from the University of Groningen's Economics Faculty he joined the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies of the University of Amsterdam in 2000, where he helped build an extensive portfolio of international research and research cooperation. He provides expert advice on low pay, wage inequality, the minimum wage, youth labour, older workers, employment policy, and labour market reform to the EU, OECD, ILO and the British Low Pay Commission. He chairs the Supervisory Board of the international WageIndicator which offers internet surveying of pay in many countries.Brian Nolan is Professor of Public Policy in the School of Applied Social Science, UCD, Dublin. His research focuses on poverty, income inequality, the economics of social policy, and health economics, and recent publications include studies on social inclusion in the EU, equity in health service use, long-term trends in top incomes, child poverty, deprivation and multiple disadvantage, tax/welfare reform, and the minimum wage. Timothy M. Smeeding is Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University where he is also the founding director of the Center for Policy Research. He the Founder and Director Emeritus of the Luxembourg Income Study Project , which he began in 1983. His primary research focuses on national and cross-national comparisons of income and wealth inequality, social mobility, and poverty among vulnerable groups, including low-wage workers, children, the aged, and the disabled. He is spending the 2007-2008 academic year as a Visiting Fellow in residence at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York where he is examining cross-national paterns of economic mobility. Klappentext The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality presents a new and definitive analysis of economic inequality in developed countries. Bringing together the world's top scholars! this comprehensive and authoritative volume contains an impressive array of original research on topics in economic inequality. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality presents a new and definitive analysis of economic inequality in developed countries. Bringing together the world's top scholars, this comprehensive and authoritative volume contains an impressive array of original research on topics in economic inequality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Inequality: Overview, Concepts and Measurement 1: Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan and Timothy M. Smeeding: Introduction: The scope and worries of economic inequality 2: John E. Roemer: Concepts and theories of inequality 3: Stephen Jenkins and Philippe van Kerm: The measurement of economic inequality Part 2 The Extent of Inequality 4: Andrea Brandolini and Timothy M. Smeeding: Income inequality 5: Andrew Glyn: Functional and personal distribution 6: James B. Davies: Wealth and economic inequality 7: Andrew Leigh: High incomes and inequality Part 3 Earnings inequality 8: Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn: Inequality and earnings distribution 9: Julia Lane: Inequality and the labour market: employers 10: Jelle Visser and Daniele Checchi: Inequality and the labour market: unions 11: Claudio Lucifora and Wiemer Salverda: Low pay 12: Mary B. Gregory: Gender and economic inequality Part 4 Dimensions of inequality 13: Brian Nolan and Ive Marx: Inequality, poverty and exclusion 14: Nancy Folbre: Inequality, consumption and time use 15: Bernard van Praag and Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell: Inequality and happiness 16: Andrew Leigh, Christopher Jencks and Timothy M...
Sommario
- Part 1 Inequality: Overview, Concepts and Measurement
- 1: Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan and Timothy M. Smeeding: Introduction: The scope and worries of economic inequality
- 2: John E. Roemer: Concepts and theories of inequality
- 3: Stephen Jenkins and Philippe van Kerm: The measurement of economic inequality
- Part 2 The Extent of Inequality
- 4: Andrea Brandolini and Timothy M. Smeeding: Income inequality
- 5: Andrew Glyn: Functional and personal distribution
- 6: James B. Davies: Wealth and economic inequality
- 7: Andrew Leigh: High incomes and inequality
- Part 3 Earnings inequality
- 8: Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn: Inequality and earnings distribution
- 9: Julia Lane: Inequality and the labour market: employers
- 10: Jelle Visser and Daniele Checchi: Inequality and the labour market: unions
- 11: Claudio Lucifora and Wiemer Salverda: Low pay
- 12: Mary B. Gregory: Gender and economic inequality
- Part 4 Dimensions of inequality
- 13: Brian Nolan and Ive Marx: Inequality, poverty and exclusion
- 14: Nancy Folbre: Inequality, consumption and time use
- 15: Bernard van Praag and Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell: Inequality and happiness
- 16: Andrew Leigh, Christopher Jencks and Timothy M. Smeeding: Health and economic inequalities
- 17: Stephen Machin: Inequality and education
- Part 5 The Dynamics of Inequality
- 18: Gary Burtless: Demographic transformation and economic inequality
- 19: Klaus F. Zimmermann and Martin Kahanec: International migration, ethnicity and economic inequality
- 20: Anders Bjorklund and Markus Jäntti: Intergenerational economic inequality
- 21: Richard V. Burkhauser and Kenneth A. Couch: Intragenerational inequality and intertemporal mobility
- Part 6 Global perspectives on inequality
- 22: Sarah Voitchovsky: Inequality, growth and sectoral change
- 23: Richard B. Freeman: Trade, skills and globalization
- 24: Francisco H.G. Ferreira and Martin Ravallion: Poverty and Inequality: The Global Context
- Part 7 Can inequalities be changed?
- 25: Gøsta Esping-Andersen and John Myles: Economic inequality and the welfare state
- 26: Nolan McCarty and Jonas Pontusson: Inequality and policy making
- 27: John E. Roemer: Prospects for achieving equality in market economies
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This book should be of interest to a vast audience...All chapters are clearly written and accessible, even for non specialists. This Handbook covers almost all the themes that are of importance to those interested in economic inequality, whether from a theoretical, empirical or policymaking perspective, which is a great achievement indeed. Jacques Silber, Journal of Economic Inequality
