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Book SynopsisResearch on Economic Inequality is a well-established publication of quality research. This 28th volume features insightful and original papers from the 8th Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) meeting.
The first paper of this volume illustrates the trajectory of income inequality in wealthy countries over the course of recent decades, while the second carries out a comprehensive assessment of income redistribution through taxes and transfers across OECD countries over the last two decades. The next two papers cover the topic of income mobility, one interpreting the Bartholomew index of mobility in terms of a directional mobility index, and the second providing a framework for the measurement of income mobility over a range of time periods. A fifth paper studies the potential equalization of rising educational attainment. The next paper investigates the effect the number of children within different age groups has on poverty. In the seventh, it is shown that a social planner who seeks to efficiently reduce the aggregate relative deprivation of the population, coincides with the Rawlsian social planner. Finally, the last paper generalizes the Oaxaca-Blinder approach to measure wage discrimination under imperfect information.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Inequality and Real Income Growth for Middle and Low-Income Households Across Rich Countries in Recent Decades;
Brian Nolan and Stefan ThewissenChapter 2. Income Redistribution through Taxes and Transfers Across OECD Countries;
Orsetta Causa and Mikkel Hermansen Chapter 3.
Measuring Directional Mobility: The Bartholomew and Prais-Bibby Indices Reconsidered;
Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, Nora Lusting and Rodrigo Aranda Chapter 4. On the Measurement of Multi-Period Income Mobility;
Marek Kosny, Jacques Silber and Gaston Yalonetzky Chapter 5. Rising Educational Attainment and Opportunity Equalization: Evidence from France;
Francesco Andreoli, Arnaud Lefranc and Vincenzo Prete Chapter 6. Household Size and Poverty;
Alessio Fusco and Nizamul Islam Chapter 7. An Economics-based Rationale for the Rawlsian Social Welfare Program;
Oded Stark Chapter 8. The Measurement of Wage Discrimination with Imperfect Information: A Finite Mixture Approach;
Juan Prieto-Rodríguez, Juan Gabriel Rodríguez and Rafael Salas
