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Author : Timothy M. Smeeding,Michael O'Higgins,Lee Rainwater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015018457625
Author : Timothy M. Smeeding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Income distribution
ISBN : OCLC:658090547
Author : Timothy M. Smeeding,Michael O'Higgins,Lee Rainwater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Comparative economics
ISBN : 0877664412
Author : Pablo Beramendi,Christopher J. Anderson
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781610440448
The gap between the richest and poorest Americans has grown steadily over the last thirty years, and economic inequality is on the rise in many other industrialized democracies as well. But the magnitude and pace of the increase differs dramatically across nations. A country’s political system and its institutions play a critical role in determining levels of inequality in a society. Democracy, Inequality, and Representation argues that the reverse is also true—inequality itself shapes political systems and institutions in powerful and often overlooked ways. In Democracy, Inequality, and Representation, distinguished political scientists and economists use a set of international databases to examine the political causes and consequences of income inequality. The volume opens with an examination of how differing systems of political representation contribute to cross-national variations in levels of inequality. Torben Iverson and David Soskice calculate that taxes and income transfers help reduce the poverty rate in Sweden by over 80 percent, while the comparable figure for the United States is only 13 percent. Noting that traditional economic models fail to account for this striking discrepancy, the authors show how variations in electoral systems lead to very different outcomes. But political causes of disparity are only one part of the equation. The contributors also examine how inequality shapes the democratic process. Pablo Beramendi and Christopher Anderson show how disparity mutes political voices: at the individual level, citizens with the lowest incomes are the least likely to vote, while high levels of inequality in a society result in diminished electoral participation overall. Thomas Cusack, Iverson, and Philipp Rehm demonstrate that uncertainty in the economy changes voters’ attitudes; the mere risk of losing one’s job generates increased popular demand for income support policies almost as much as actual unemployment does. Ronald Rogowski and Duncan McRae illustrate how changes in levels of inequality can drive reforms in political institutions themselves. Increased demand for female labor participation during World War II led to greater equality between men and women, which in turn encouraged many European countries to extend voting rights to women for the first time. The contributors to this important new volume skillfully disentangle a series of complex relationships between economics and politics to show how inequality both shapes and is shaped by policy. Democracy, Inequality, and Representation provides deeply nuanced insight into why some democracies are able to curtail inequality—while others continue to witness a division that grows ever deeper.
Author : Lee Rainwater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Comparative economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070852921
Author : Yannick Lemel,Heinz-Herbert Noll
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0773526234
The international sociological community has engaged in a controversial discussion on social inequality. This title offers a deed analysis of country-specific research traditions in the fields of class analysis and social stratification, revealing important conceptual differences that have consequences for the diagnoses.
Author : Lars Osberg
Publisher : Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0873325281
This title was first published in 1991: This collection focuses on the concepts and measurements of inequality, poverty, the concentration of wealth, and the implications of these issues for social policies. A special feature of this work is the international comparisons of the evidence on economic inequality.
Author : Gary S. Fields
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Economic development
ISBN : CORNELL:31924000739932
Author : Brian Nolan,Daniele Checchi,Abigail McKnight
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199687435
This book uses a combination of comparative analysis and in-depth examination of the experience of 30 countries over the past 30 years, to see whether inequality in incomes, wealth, and education has been widening. It shows how these inequalities are related to social and political outcomes such as poverty, family structures, health, and crime.
Author : Richard Hauser,Irene Becker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783662052549
Richard Hauser Irene Becker Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, FrankfurtlMain This volume marks the end of a research project of the editors titled "The Devel opment of the Personal Distribution of Income in Germany" that was financed by the Hans Bockler Foundation from 1994 to 2001. This research concentrated on a national perspective, studying many aspects of income inequality and poverty in West Germany between 1969 and 1998 and extending the analyses to inequality in East Germany after the German reunification. Now at the end point of our empiri cal analyses, we want to expand the perspective to other research in this field, to challenges for future research, and to the European dimension, rather than to summarise all our results, which is done in another bookl. In 2001, the German goverrunent published its first Poverty and Wealth Re 2 port , which also draws on results from our research project. Thus, the intention of this volume is threefold: presenting and advancing Gernlan reporting on poverty in other coun and wealth, examining experience with advanced reporting schemes tries, and discussing comparative concepts for social monitoring in the European Union.
Author : David B. Grusky,S. M. Ravi Kanbur,Amartya Kumar Sen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804748438
This is a collection of essays from leading public intellectuals that identifies major conceptual problems in the analysis of poverty and inequality and advances strategies for reducing poverty and inequality that are consistent with these new conceptual and methodological approaches.
Author : Nanak Kakwani,World Bank
Publisher : New York : Published for the World Bank [by] Oxford University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822010677177
Deals with income distribution methods and their economic applications.
Author : Janet C. Gornick,Markus Jäntti
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804786751
This state-of-the-art volume presents comparative, empirical research on a topic that has long preoccupied scholars, politicians, and everyday citizens: economic inequality. While income and wealth inequality across all populations is the primary focus, the contributions to this book pay special attention to the middle class, a segment often not addressed in inequality literature. Written by leading scholars in the field of economic inequality, all 17 chapters draw on microdata from the databases of LIS, an esteemed cross-national data center based in Luxembourg. Using LIS data to structure a comparative approach, the contributors paint a complex portrait of inequality across affluent countries at the beginning of the 21st century. The volume also trail-blazes new research into inequality in countries newly entering the LIS databases, including Japan, Iceland, India, and South Africa.
Author : Satya R. Chakravarty
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780387792538
This book provides a synthesis of some recent issues and an up-to-date treatment of some of the major important issues in distributional analysis that I have covered in my previous book Ethical Social Index Numbers, which was widely accepted by students, teachers, researchers and practitioners in the area. Wide coverage of on-going and advanced topics and their analytical, articulate and authoritative p- sentation make the book theoretically and methodologically quite contemporary and inclusive, and highly responsive to the practical problems of recent concern. Since many countries of the world are still characterized by high levels of income inequality, Chap. 1 analyzes the problems of income inequality measurement in detail. Poverty alleviation is an overriding goal of development and social policy. To formulate antipoverty policies, research on poverty has mostly focused on inco- based indices. In view of this, a substantive analysis of income-based poverty has been presented in Chap. 2. The subject of Chap. 3 is people’s perception about income inequality in terms of deprivation. Since polarization is of current concern to analysts and social decisi- makers, a discussion on polarization is presented in Chap. 4.
Author : Daniel J. Slottje,Baldev Raj
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642510731
Presented are new methods and new empirical studies on the subject of income inequality and poverty. The purpose of the book is to explore new ways to analyze recent trends in income inequality and poverty, both from the perspective of quantifying poverty and inequality and quantifyig the impact of various factors on the trends in inequality and poverty. The novelty lies in the diversity of empirical approaches used and customers will benefit from learning about different methods.
