Income inequality : economic disparities and the middle class in affluent countries / / edited by Janet C. Gornick and Markus Jantti.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Gornick, Janet C.; Jantii, Markus, 1966-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in social inequality
• Physical Description: xix, 515 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• How has income inequality grown? : the reshaping of the income distribution in LIS countries / Arthur S. Alderson and Kevin Doran
• On the identification of the middle class / Anthony Atkinson and Andrea Brandolini
• Has rising inequality reduced middle-class income growth? / Lane Kenworthy
• Welfare regimes, cohorts and the middle classes / Louis Chauvel
• Political sources of government redistribution in high-income countries / Vincent A. Mahler, David K. Jesuit and Piotr R. Paradowski
• Income distribution, inequality perception and redistributive preferences in European countries / Istvan Gyorgy Toth and Tamas Keller
• Women's employment and household income inequality / Susan Harkness
• Women's employment, unpaid work, and economic inequality / Nancy Folbre, Janet C. Gornick, Helen Connolly and Teresa Munzi
• Women's work, family earnings, and public policy / Margarita Estevez-Abe and Tanja Hethey
• The distribution of assets and debt / Eva Sierminska, Timothy M. Smeeding and Serge Allegrezza
• The joint distribution of income and wealth / Markus Jantti, Eva Sierminska and Philippe Van Kerm
• The fourth retirement pillar in rich countries / Bruce Bradbury
• Public pension entitlements and the distribution of wealth / Joachim R. Frick and Markus M. Grabka
• Income and wealth inequality in Japan / Colin McKenzie
• Income inequality in boom and bust : a tale from Iceland's bubble economy / Stefan Olafsson and Arnaldur Solvi Kristjansson
• Horizontal and vertical inequalities in India / Reeve Vanneman and Amaresh Dubey
• Post-apartheid changes in South African inequality / Murray Leibbrandt, Ingrid Woolard and Arden Finn.