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There has been a rapid global expansion of academic and policy
attention focusing on in-work poverty, illustrating that across the
world there are increasing numbers of people who could be described
as the ?working poor?. Taking a global and multi-disciplinary
perspective, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of
current research at the intersection between work and poverty.
Authoritative contributions from leading researchers in the field
provide comprehensive coverage of conceptual and measurement
issues, causal drivers and mechanisms, key empirical findings,
policy issues and debates. The Handbook is unique in offering
perspectives from a wide range of regions and countries, stretching
beyond developed countries. It also does justice to the
paradigmatic diversity in approaches to in-work poverty, offering a
wealth of variety in disciplinary approaches. Academically
rigorous, yet clear and concise, this Handbook will benefit
students and scholars of public policy, politics, social policy and
development studies. It will also prove accessible for policy
analysts and journalists looking to explore the issue from new
angles. Contributors include: P. Barbieri, A. Barrientos, K.M.
Blankenship, D. Brady, E. Crettaz, G. Cutuli, J.C. Feres, N.-S.
Fritsch, M. Giesselmann, J. Horemans, A. Horton, L. Kenworthy, M.
Leibbrandt, A. Levanon, D.T. Lichter, K. Lilenstein, H. Lohmann,
J.-d. Lue, B. Maitre, L. Maldonado, L.C. Maldonado, S. Marchal, I.
Marx, R. Maurizio, R. Nieuwenhuis, B. Nolan, S. Oselin, S.
Ponthieux, L. Pradella, J. Prieto, E. Saburov, W. Salverda, S.R.
Sanders, S. Scherer, D. Seikel, D. Spannagel, B.C. Thiede, V.
Unnikrishnan, W. Van Lancker, L. Vandecasteele, G. Verbist, R.
Verwiebe, C.T. Whelan, J. Wills, I. Woolard, C.-Y. Yeh
There has been a rapid global expansion of academic and policy
attention focusing on in-work poverty, illustrating that across the
world there are increasing numbers of people who could be described
as the ?working poor?. Taking a global and multi-disciplinary
perspective, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of
current research at the intersection between work and poverty.
Authoritative contributions from leading researchers in the field
provide comprehensive coverage of conceptual and measurement
issues, causal drivers and mechanisms, key empirical findings,
policy issues and debates. The Handbook is unique in offering
perspectives from a wide range of regions and countries, stretching
beyond developed countries. It also does justice to the
paradigmatic diversity in approaches to in-work poverty, offering a
wealth of variety in disciplinary approaches. Academically
rigorous, yet clear and concise, this Handbook will benefit
students and scholars of public policy, politics, social policy and
development studies. It will also prove accessible for policy
analysts and journalists looking to explore the issue from new
angles. Contributors include: P. Barbieri, A. Barrientos, K.M.
Blankenship, D. Brady, E. Crettaz, G. Cutuli, J.C. Feres, N.-S.
Fritsch, M. Giesselmann, J. Horemans, A. Horton, L. Kenworthy, M.
Leibbrandt, A. Levanon, D.T. Lichter, K. Lilenstein, H. Lohmann,
J.-d. Lue, B. Maitre, L. Maldonado, L.C. Maldonado, S. Marchal, I.
Marx, R. Maurizio, R. Nieuwenhuis, B. Nolan, S. Oselin, S.
Ponthieux, L. Pradella, J. Prieto, E. Saburov, W. Salverda, S.R.
Sanders, S. Scherer, D. Seikel, D. Spannagel, B.C. Thiede, V.
Unnikrishnan, W. Van Lancker, L. Vandecasteele, G. Verbist, R.
Verwiebe, C.T. Whelan, J. Wills, I. Woolard, C.-Y. Yeh
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
this approach to learning from the experiences over the last three
decades of European countries together with the USA, Japan, Canada,
Australia, and South Korea. It combines comparative research with
lessons from specific country experiences, and highlights the
challenges in seeking to adequately assess the factors underpinning
increasing inequalities and in identify the channels through which
these may impact on key social and political outcomes, as well as
the importance of framing inequality trends and impacts in the
institutional and policy context of the country in question.
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