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Research on Economic Inequality is a well-established publication
of quality research. This 30th volume features insightful and
original papers from the 9th Society for the Study of Economic
Inequality (ECINEQ) meeting. Mobility and Inequality Trends begins
by illustrating the trajectory of income inequality in the world
over the course of recent decades before the second paper makes a
crucial distinction between 'bad' inequality, which is detrimental
to society, and 'good' inequality, which is beneficial. Focus then
shifts to bad inequality, one paper covering the relationship
between intergenerational elasticity and inequality of opportunity,
and the second studying the relationship between intergenerational
mobility and life satisfaction in Spain. The volume then progresses
to defend the use of intermediate views of inequality when
constructing indicators of social welfare obtained through the use
of average income and the Gini coefficient before investigating the
advantage of using a multifaceted approach to income mobility
measurement. To conclude Mobility and Inequality Trends presents an
intensive exploration of income inequality in China and then
studies the effects of the policy measure "Minimum Living Income.
Finally, the last paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
on economic stimulus policies.
Research on Economic Inequality, volume 26, primarily contains
papers presented at the 8th Society for the Study of Economic
Inequality (ECINEQ) meeting. The papers cover such topics as the
effect of inheritance taxation on the "pre-distribution" of income,
and tax progressivity under alternative inequality definitions.
Other papers address the evolution of wealth inequality (Piketty's
"r-g"), the decomposition of the determinants of wage
bi-polarization, a multidimensional analysis of food insecurity in
Israel, and the "paradox of progress" (educational) in Latin
America. Three papers address the intergenerational transmission of
inequality, two of which focus on Europe and one which considers a
wide variety of countries. The final two papers explore inequality
(mis) perceptions and the influence of the political structure on
stated inequality preferences.
This volume contains research on how we measure poverty, inequality
and welfare and how we use such measurements to devise policies to
deliver social mobility. It contains ten papers, some of which were
presented at the third meeting of The Theory and Empirics of
Poverty, Inequality and Mobility at Queen Mary University of
London, London, October 2016. The volume begins with theoretical
issues at the frontier of the literature. Three papers discuss the
impact of social welfare policies on poverty measurement, and with
innovations on the measurement of relative bipolarisation. Two
papers address the conceptualisation of multidimensional poverty by
incorporating inequality within the poor, and that of chronic
poverty for time dependent analyses, with applications to India and
Haiti, and Ethiopia respectively. The second half of the volume
consists of empirical contributions, using novel techniques and
datasets to investigate the dynamics of poverty and welfare. These
studies track the dynamics of poverty using unique datasets for
China, the Caucasus and Italy. The volume concludes with
investigations about within-household inequalities between siblings
due to the unequal effects of conditional cash transfers in
Cambodia and a cross-country study on the effect of historical
income inequality on entrepreneurship in developing countries.
The essays in this series offer fresh theoretical and
methodological insights into the key issues in the field of
economic inequality. The content is comprised of highly topical
subject matter with key researchers in the field contributing.
Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 22 begins with papers of
widespread interest on the impact of the Great Recession. The first
paper addresses the impact of "asset meltdown" on the wealth of the
US middle class, with disparate racial and ethnic impacts. The
second studies poverty and inequality in the US in the aftermath of
the Great Recession. The next topic is on the evolution of poverty
and inequality in the world. One paper proposes a new methodology
to measure global poverty and inequality, while the second analyzes
the importance of considering not only the desperately poor but
also those just above the subsistence level. Great interest for
inequality researchers lies on the use of wealth data. Two
approaches to this issue are presented. Firstly, several papers
study wealth inequality directly. Secondly, a paper uses annuitized
wealth data to augment the income measure of economic well-being.
An emerging field in the study of economic well-being is the use of
self-reported status and perceptions data. Three papers employ this
type of data, investigating happiness inequality, perception of
income inequality, and the existence of a "Great Gatsby Curve" for
job mobility.
Economists are increasingly turning their attention to the
measurement and causes of health inequality. This is in response to
widespread concern that health disparities reflect social
injustices but is also part of the trend away from the narrow focus
on inequality in income to the more encompassing analysis of
inequality in wellbeing. Researchers interested in the extent and
causes of variation in wellbeing cannot but turn their analytical
gaze on health inequalities. This volume contains methodological
and empirical contributions from leading experts in health
economics and economic inequality that add further momentum to a
thriving field of research. The focus is on methods for the
measurement of health inequalities (income related,
multidimensional and inequalities of opportunity) as well as the
analysis of their causes. The collection is essential reading for
researchers already working on health inequality and provides an
immediate reconnaissance of the frontiers for those entering this
exciting field.
This volume contains both theoretical and applied on the concept of
equality of opportunity which says that a society should guarantee
its members equal access to advantage regardless of their
circumstances, while holding them responsible for turning that
access into actual advantage by the application of effort.
Theoretical papers discuss to what extent some of the measures of
inequality of opportunity meet the reward and the compensation
principles, a new methodology for evaluating long-term income
distributions, the implications of partial observability of
individuals' circumstances on the measurement of inequality of
opportunity and the advantages of applying segregation indices to
study inequality in life chances. The applied work investigates how
governments affect inequality of opportunity through the design of
their tax and transfer schemes in 15 European countries, the
changing role of circumstances for measuring inequality of
opportunity in Chile, the existence of a poverty trap in Haiti and
its consequences for equality of opportunity, and the correlation
between circumstances and effort in the measurement of inequality
of opportunity in U.S. during the period 1969-2007.
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