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There has been a remarkable upsurge of debate about increasing inequalities and their societal implications, reinforced by the economic crisis but bubbling to the surface before it. This has been seen in popular discourse, media coverage, political debate, and research in the social sciences. The central questions addressed by this book, and the major research project GINI on which it is based, are: - Have inequalities in income, wealth and
education increased over the past 30 years or so across the rich countries, and if so why?- What are the social, cultural and political impacts of increasing inequalities in income, wealth and
education?- What are the implications for policy and for the future development of welfare states? In seeking to answer these questions, this book adopts an interdisciplinary approach that draws on economics, sociology, and political science, and applies a common analytical framework to the experience of 30 advanced countries, namely all the EU member states except Cyprus and Malta, together with the USA, Japan, Canada, Australia and South Korea. It presents a
description and analysis of the experience of each of these countries over the past three decades, together with an introduction, an overview of inequality trends, and a concluding chapter highlighting
key findings and implications. These case-studies bring out the variety of country experiences and the importance of framing inequality trends in the institutional and policy context of each country if one is to adequately capture and understand the evolution of inequality and its impacts.
There has been a remarkable upsurge of debate about increasing inequalities and their societal implications, reinforced by the economic crisis but bubbling to the surface before it. This has been seen in popular discourse, media coverage, political debate, and research in the social sciences. The central questions addressed by this book, and the major research project GINI on which it is based, are: - Have inequalities in income, wealth and
education increased over the past 30 years or so across the rich countries, and if so why?- What are the social, cultural and political impacts of increasing inequalities in income, wealth and
education?- What are the implications for policy and for the future development of welfare states? In seeking to answer these questions, this book adopts an interdisciplinary approach that draws on economics, sociology, and political science, and applies a common analytical framework to the experience of 30 advanced countries, namely all the EU member states except Cyprus and Malta, together with the USA, Japan, Canada, Australia and South Korea. It presents a
description and analysis of the experience of each of these countries over the past three decades, together with an introduction, an overview of inequality trends, and a concluding chapter highlighting
key findings and implications. These case-studies bring out the variety of country experiences and the importance of framing inequality trends in the institutional and policy context of each country if one is to adequately capture and understand the evolution of inequality and its impacts.
Lászlo Andor: Foreword
Brian Nolan, Wiemer Salverda, Daniele Checchi, Ive Marx, Abigail
McKnight, István György Tóth, and Herman van de Werfhorst:
Preface
1: Brian Nolan, Wiemer Salverda, Daniele Checchi, Ive Marx, Abigail
McKnight, István György Tóth, and Herman van de Werfhorst:
Introduction
2: István György Tóth: Revisiting Grand Narratives of Growing
Inequalities: Lessons From 30 Country Studies
3: Peter Whiteford: Australia: Inequality and Prosperity and their
Impacts in a Radical Welfare State
4: Roland Verwiebe, Tobias Troger, Laura Wiesböck, Roland Teitzer,
and Nina-Sophie Fritsch: Austria: The Bastion of Calm? Stability
and Change in Inequalities in Times of Welfare State Reforms and
Employment Flexibilization
5: Jaan Masso, Kerly Espenberg, Anu Masso, Inta Mierina, and Kaia
Philips: Between Economic Growth and Social Justice: Different
Inequality Dynamics in the Baltic States
6: Tim Van Rie and Ive Marx: Belgium: When Growing Background
Inequalities Meet Resilient Institutions
7: Vassil Tsanov, Petya Ivanova, Silvia Panteleeva, and Bogdan
Bogdanov: Bulgaria: Rising Inequality in the Period of Transition
and Restrictive Incomes Policy
8: Robert Andersen and Mitch McIvor: Rising Inequality and Its
Impact in Canada: The Role of National Debt
9: Ioana Neamtu and Niels Westergaard-Nielsen: Sources and Impact
of Rising Inequality in Denmark
10: Jenni Blomgren, Heikki Hiilamo, Olli Kangas, and Mikko Niemelä:
Finland: Growing Inequality with contested consequences
11: Nicolas Frémeaux and Thomas Piketty: France: How Taxation Can
Increase Inequality
12: Giacomo Corneo, Sonja Zmerli, and Reinhard Pollak: Germany:
Rising Inequality and the Transformation of Rhine Capitalism
13: Margarita Katsimi, Thomas Moutos, George Pagoulatos, and
Dimitri Sotiropoulos: Greece: The (Eventual) Social Hardship of
Soft Budget Constraints
14: Zoltán Fábián, András Gábos, Marianna Kopasz, Márton Medgyesi,
Péter Szivós, and István György Tóth: Hungary: A Country Caught in
its Own Trap
15: Brian Nolan, Emma Calvert, Tony Fahey, Deirdre Healy, Aogan
Mulcahy, Bertrand Maître, Michelle Norris, Ian O'Donnell, Nessa
Winston, and Christopher T. Whelan: Ireland: Inequality and its
Impacts in Boom and Bust
16: Gabriele Ballarino, Michela Braga, Massimiliano Bratti, Daniele
Checchi, Antonio Filippin, Carlo Fiorio, Marco Leonardi, Elena
Meschi, and Francesco Scervini: Italy: How Labour Market Policies
Can Foster Earnings Inequality
17: Miki Kohara and Fumio Ohtake: Rising Inequality in Japan: A
Challenge Caused by Population Aging and Drastic Changes in
Employment
18: Byung You Cheon, Jiyeun Chang, Gyu Seong Hwang, Jin Wook Shin,
Shin Wook Kang, Byung Hee Lee, and Hyun Joo Kim: Korea: The Great
U-Turn in Inequality and the Need for Social Security
Provisions
19: Alessio Fusco, Philippe Van Kerm, Aigul Alieva, Luna Bellani,
Fanny Etienne-Robert, Anne-Catherine Guio, Iryna Kyzyma, Kristell
Leduc, Philippe Liégeois, Maria Noel Pi Alperin, Anne Reinstadler,
Eva Sierminska, Denisa Sologon, Patrick Thill, Marie Valentova, and
Bogdan Voicu: Luxembourg: Has Inequality Grown Enough to
Matter?
20: Wiemer Salverda, Marloes de Graaf-Zijl, Christina Haas, Bram
Lancee, and Natascha Notten: The Netherlands: Policy-Enhanced
Inequalities Tempered by Household Formation
21: Natalia Letki, MichaT Brzezinski, and Barbara Jancewicz: The
Rise of Inequalities in Poland and their Impacts: When Politicians
Don't Care but Citizens Do
22: Carlos Farinha Rodrigues and Isabel Andrade: Portugal: There
and Back Again, An Inequality's Tale
23: Iuliana Precupetu and Marius Precupetu: Romania: High Rising
Inequality over Two Decades of Post Communist Transformation
24: Martin Kahanec, Martin Guzi, Monika Martisková, and Zuzana
Siebertová: Slovakia and the Czech Republic: Inequalities and
Convergences after the Velvet Divorce
25: Masa Filipovic Hrast and Miroljub Ignjatovic: Slovenia: An
Equal Society Despite the Transition
26: Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Xavier Ramos, and Mónica Oviedo: Spain:
What Can We Learn From Past Decreasing Inequalities?
27: Johan Fritzell, Jennie Bacchus Hertzman, Olof Bäckman, Ida
Borg, Tommy Ferrarini, and Kenneth Nelson: Sweden: Increasing
Income Inequalities and Changing Social Relations
28: Abigail McKnight and Tiffany Tsang: Divided We Fall? The Wider
Consequences of High and Unrelenting Inequality in the UK
29: Lane Kenworthy and Timothy Smeeding: The United States: High
and Rapidly-Rising Inequality
30: Brian Nolan, Wiemer Salverda, Daniele Checchi, Ive Marx,
Abigail McKnight, István György Tóth, and Herman van de Werfhorst:
Learning from Diversity about Increasing Inequality, its Impacts,
and Responses?
University College Dublin, Wiemer Salverda, Professor of Labour
Market and Inequality, Amsterdam Center for Inequality Studies
AMCIS, and Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies AIAS,
University of Amsterdam, Daniele Checchi, University of Milan, Ive
Marx, Associate Professor, University of Antwerp, Abigail
McKnightThe seven editors together organized and coordinated the
3.5-year Growing Inequalities' Impacts GINI project, which
generated the results
reported in this volume. They are an international team drawn from
different disciplines and with important and complementary
expertise in the fields covered by the book. They share a history
of joint
publications, including edited volumes, and extensive cooperation
in research networks such LoWER (European Low-wage Employment
Research network, 1996-2008), Equalsoc (Network of Excellence,
since 2005), and ImPRovE (Poverty Reduction in Europe: Social
Policy and Innovation, since 2012)
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