Inequality Causes and Consequences.

Inequality has been rising in many countries over the last decades and the process seems to have accelerated with the Great Recession. Not only is income distribution more unequal today than 40 years ago, but also its transmission through generations has increased. In other words, many countries no...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lorenzo Cappellari, Solomon W Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2016.
Series:Research in Labor Economics, 43
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Table of Contents:
  • Inequality of opportunity in Europe: Is there a role for institutions?
  • Daniele Checchi,Vito Peragine,Laura Serlenga
  • Household Lifetime Inequality Estimates in the U.S. Labor Market
  • Luca Flabbi , James Mabli , Mauricio Salazar
  • Estimating the Intergenerational Elasticity and Rank Association in the United States: Overcoming the Current Limitations of Tax Data
  • Bhashkar Mazumder
  • Income shocks or insurance - what determines consumption inequality?
  • Johannes Ludwig
  • THE ROLE OF ESTABLISHMENTS AND THE CONCENTRATION OF OCCUPATIONS IN WAGE INEQUALITY
  • Elizabeth Weber Handwerker,James R Spletzer
  • Inequality and Changes in Task Prices: Within and Between Occupation Effects
  • Nicole Fortin , Thomas Lemieux
  • Intergenerational Transmission of Skills and Differences in Labor Market Outcomes for Blacks and Whites
  • Tsunao Okumura , Emiko Usui
  • The college wage premium over time: trends in Europe in the last 15 years
  • Elena Crivellaro
  • Rising Wage Inequality, Real Wage Stagnation and Unions
  • Stephen Machin
  • Is There an Advantage to Working? The Relationship between Maternal Employment and Intergenerational Mobility
  • Martha H. Stinson , Peter Gottschalk