Income Inequality

Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries
Herausgeber: Gornick, Janet C; Jäntti, Markus

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Janet C. Gornick is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Director of LIS. Markus J¿ti is Professor of Economics at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, and Research Director of LIS.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 540
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 159mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780804793346
• ISBN-10: 0804793344
• Artikelnr.: 41124300

Autorenporträt

Janet C. Gornick is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Director of LIS. Markus Jäntti is Professor of Economics at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, and Research Director of LIS.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. How Has Income Inequality Grown? The Reshaping of the Income
Distribution in LIS Countries
2. On the Identification of the Middle Class
3. Has Rising Inequality Reduced Middle-Class Income Growth?
4. Welfare Regimes, Cohorts and the Middle Classes
5. Political Sources of Government Redistribution in High-Income Countries
6. Income Distribution, Inequality Perception and Redistributive
Preferences in
7. Women's Work, Inequality, and the Economic Status of Families
8. Women's Employment, Unpaid Work, and Economic Inequality
9. Women's Work, Family Earnings, and Public Policy
10. Wealth: The Distribution of Assets and Debt
11. The Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth
12. The Fourth Retirement Pillar in Rich Countries
13. Public Pension Entitlements and the Distribution of Wealth
14. Income and Wealth Inequality in Japan
15. Income and Wealth Inequality in Japan
16. Horizontal and Vertical Inequalities in India
17. Post-Apartheid Changes in South African Inequality
Conclusion