Inequality and poverty re-examined / edited by Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jenkins, Stephen P.

Micklewright, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality.

Poverty.

Physical Description:

xvii, 306 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 New Directions in the Analysis of Inequality and Poverty / Stephen P. Jenkins, John Micklewright 3

2 Inequality is Bad for the Poor / Martin Ravallion 37

3 Measurement of Income Distribution in Supranational Entities: The Case of the European Union / Andrea Brandolini 62

4 Beyond Conventional Measures of Income: Including Indirect Benefits and Taxes / Ann Harding, Neil Warren, Rachel Lloyd 84

5 Inequality within the Household Reconsidered / Peter Burton, Shelley Phipps, Frances Woolley 103

Part II Multiple Dimensions

6 Inequality of Learning in Industrialized Countries / John Micklewright, Sylke V. Schnepf 129

7 On the Multidimensionality of Poverty and Social Exclusion / Brian Nolan, Christopher T. Whelan 146

8 Summarizing Multiple Deprivation Indicators / Lorenzo Cappellari, Stephen P. Jenkins 166

9 Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons with Discrete Indicators of Well-being / Jean-Yves Duclos, David Sahn, Stephen D. Younger 185

Part III Public Policy

10 A Guaranteed Income for Europe's Children? / Horacio Levy, Christine Lietz, Holly Sutherland 209

11 The Impact of Minimum Wages on the Distribution of Earnings and Employment in the USA / Stephen Bazen 232

12 Training, Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Earnings / Alison L. Booth, Mark L. Bryan 250

13 Government Debt and the Portfolios of the Rich / Bernd Sussmuth, Robert K. von Weizsacker 268.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199218110

0199218110

0199218129

9780199218127

OCLC:

123797217