Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries
Thirty Countries' Experiences
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 January 2014
- ISBN 9780199687428
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages784 pages
- Size 253x181x49 mm
- Weight 1508 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 239 Figures and 91 Tables 0
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Short description:
This book addresses key questions about whether inequality in incomes, wealth, and education have been widening in a consistent fashion across 30 rich nations, and whether this is exacerbating social problems and undermining the healthy functioning of democratic processes.
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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.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Revisiting Grand Narratives of Growing Inequalities: Lessons From 30 Country Studies
Australia: Inequality and Prosperity and their Impacts in a Radical Welfare State
Austria: The Bastion of Calm? Stability and Change in Inequalities in Times of Welfare State Reforms and Employment Flexibilization
Between Economic Growth and Social Justice: Different Inequality Dynamics in the Baltic States
Belgium: When Growing Background Inequalities Meet Resilient Institutions
Bulgaria: Rising Inequality in the Period of Transition and Restrictive Incomes Policy
Rising Inequality and Its Impact in Canada: The Role of National Debt
Sources and Impact of Rising Inequality in Denmark
Finland: Growing Inequality with contested consequences
France: How Taxation Can Increase Inequality
Germany: Rising Inequality and the Transformation of Rhine Capitalism
Greece: The (Eventual) Social Hardship of Soft Budget Constraints
Hungary: A Country Caught in its Own Trap
Ireland: Inequality and its Impacts in Boom and Bust
Italy: How Labour Market Policies Can Foster Earnings Inequality
Rising Inequality in Japan: A Challenge Caused by Population Aging and Drastic Changes in Employment
Korea: The Great U-Turn in Inequality and the Need for Social Security Provisions
Luxembourg: Has Inequality Grown Enough to Matter?
The Netherlands: Policy-Enhanced Inequalities Tempered by Household Formation
The Rise of Inequalities in Poland and their Impacts: When Politicians Don't Care but Citizens Do
Portugal: There and Back Again, An Inequality's Tale
Romania: High Rising Inequality over Two Decades of Post Communist Transformation
Slovakia and the Czech Republic: Inequalities and Convergences after the Velvet Divorce
Slovenia: An Equal Society Despite the Transition
Spain: What Can We Learn From Past Decreasing Inequalities?
Sweden: Increasing Income Inequalities and Changing Social Relations
Divided We Fall? The Wider Consequences of High and Unrelenting Inequality in the UK
The United States: High and Rapidly-Rising Inequality
Learning from Diversity about Increasing Inequality, its Impacts, and Responses?
