List of Figures ................................................. x
List of Tables ................................................ xiv
List of Contributors ......................................... xvii
PART I INEQUALITY: OVERVIEW, CONCEPTS, AND MEASUREMENT
1. Introduction ................................................ 3
Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan, and Timothy M. Smeeding
2. Equality: Its Justification, Nature, and Domain ............ 23
John E. Roemer
3. The Measurement of Economic Inequality ..................... 40
Stephen P. Jenkins and Philippe Van Kerm
PART II THE EXTENT OF INEQUALITY
4. Income Inequality in Richer and OECD Countries ............. 71
Andrea Brandolini and Timothy M. Smeeding
5. Functional Distribution and Inequality .................... 101
Andrew Glyn
6. Wealth and Economic Inequality ............................ 127
James B. Davies
7. Top Incomes ............................................... 150
Andrew Leigh
PART III EARNINGS INEQUALITY
8. Inequality and Earnings Distribution ...................... 177
Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn
9. Inequality and the Labor Market: Employers ................ 204
Julia Lane
10. Inequality and the Labor Market: Unions ................... 230
Jelle Visser and Daniele Checchi
11. Low Pay ................................................... 257
Claudio Lucifora and Wiemer Salverda
12. Gender and Economic Inequality ............................ 284
Mary Gregory
PART IV DIMENSIONS OF INEQUALITY
13. Economic Inequality, Poverty, and Social Exclusion ........ 315
Brian Nolan and Ive Marx
14. Inequality and Time Use in the Household .................. 342
Nancy Folbre
15. Inequality and Happiness .................................. 364
Bernard Van Praag and Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
16. Health and Economic Inequality ............................ 384
Andrew Leigh, Christopher Jencks, and Timothy
M. Smeeding
17. Education and Inequality .................................. 406
Stephen Machin
PART V THE DYNAMICS OF INEQUALITY
18. Demographic Transformation and Economic Inequality ........ 435
Gary Burtless
19. International Migration, Ethnicity, and Economic
Inequality ................................................ 455
Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann
20. Intergenerational Income Mobility and the Role of
Family Background ......................................... 491
Anders Björklund and Markus Jäntti
21. Intragenerational Inequality and Intertemporal Mobility ... 522
Richard V. Burkhauser and Kenneth A. Couch
PART VI GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON INEQUALITY
22. Inequality and Economic Growth ............................ 549
Sarah Voitchovsky
23. Globalization and Inequality .............................. 575
Richard B. Freeman
24. Poverty and Inequality: The Global Context ................ 599
Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Martin Ravallion
PART VII CHANGING INEQUALITIES
25. Economic Inequality and the Welfare State ................. 639
Gøsta Esping-Andersen and Iohn Myles
26. The Political Economy of Inequality and Redistribution .... 665
Nolan McCarty and Jonas Pontusson
27. Prospects for Achieving Equality in Market Economies ...... 693
John E. Roemer
25. Index ..................................................... 709
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