Overview

The issues surrounding poverty and inequality continue to be of central concern to academics, politicians and policy makers but the ways in which we seek to study and understand them continue to change over time. This accessible book seeks to provide a guide to some of the new approaches that have been developed in the light of international initiatives to reduce poverty and the notable changes in income inequality and poverty that have occurred across many western countries in recent years. These new approaches have to some degree been facilitated by the emergence of new techniques and a growing availability of data that enable cross national comparisons not only of income but also of measures of welfare such as educational achievement, nutritional status in developing countries and wealth and deprivation indicators in the developed world. Including specially commissioned research from a distinguished list of international authors, this volume makes a real contribution to the public debate surrounding inequality and poverty as well as providing new empirical information about them from around the world.

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Author:   Stephen P. Jenkins (University of Essex) ,  John Micklewright (University of Southampton)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780199218127

ISBN 10:   0199218129
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   20 September 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright: New Directions in the Analysis of Inequality and Poverty Conceptual Issues 2: Martin Ravallion: Inequality is Bad for the Poor 3: Andrea Brandolini: Measurement of Income Distribution in Supranational Entities: The Case of the European Union 4: Ann Harding, Rachel Lloyd, and Neil Warren: Beyond Conventional Measures of Income: Including Indirect Benefits and Taxes 5: Peter Burton, Shelley Phipps, and Frances Woolley: Inequality Within the Household Reconsidered Multiple Dimensions 6: John Micklewright and Sylke Schnepf: Inequality of Learning in Industrialised Countries 7: Brian Nolan and Christopher T. Whelan: On the Multidimensionality of Poverty and Social Exclusion 8: Lorenzo Cappellari and Stephen P. Jenkins: Summarizing Multiple Deprivation Indicators 9: Jean-Yves Duclos, David Sahn, and Stephen Younger: Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons with Discrete Indicators of Well-Being Public Policy 10: Horacio Levy, Christine Lietz, and Holly Sutherland: A Guaranteed Income for Europe's Children? 11: Stephen Bazen: The Impact of Minimum Wages on the Distribution of Earnings and Employment in the USA 12: Alison L. Booth and Mark Bryan: Minimum Wages, Training, and the Distribution of Earnings 13: Bernd Süssmuth and Robert K. von Weizsäcker: Government Debt and the Portfolios of the Rich

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Stephen P. Jenkins is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, and the current Chairperson of the Council of the International Association for Research on Income and Wealth. He is also a Research Professor of DIW Berlin, and Research Fellow of IZA Bonn and CHILD Turin. Previously he was Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Wales Swansea. John Micklewright is Professor in Social Statistics in the School of Social Sciences and Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton. He is also a Research Fellow of CEPR, London, and IZA, Bonn. Previously he was Professor of Economics at the European University Institute, Florence, and Queen Mary, University of London.

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