Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0804793344 ISBN 13: 9780804793346

Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

"A timely, informative volume for students and researchers concerned with income inequality ... Recommended." - R. S. Rycroft, CHOICE "This is one of the most important books on inequality published in the past decade. Focusing on what has happened to the middle class since the 1980s, during a period of substantial economic and political restructuring, this volume's remarkable insights and influence will span disciplines." --- Jason Beckfield, Harvard University

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Stanford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0804793344
• ISBN 13: 9780804793346
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 515
• Redattore: Gornick Janet C., Jntti Markus