Challenging Inequality : Variation across Postindustrial Societies

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Challenging Inequality : Variation across Postindustrial Societies

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 384 p.
  • 言語 ENG
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Full Description

A wide-ranging examination of how policies, parties, and labor strength affect inequality in post-industrial societies.

Not all countries are unequal in the same ways or to the same degree. In Challenging Inequality, Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens analyze different patterns of increasing income inequality in post-industrial societies since the 1980s, assessing the policies and social structures best able to mitigate against the worst effects of market inequality. Combining statistical data analysis from twenty-two countries with a comparative historical analysis of Germany, Spain, Sweden, and the United States, Huber and Stephens identify the factors that drive increases in inequality and shape persistent, marked differences between countries. Their statistical analysis confirms generalizable patterns and in-depth country studies help to further elucidate the processes at work.

Challenging Inequality shows how the combination of globalization and skill-biased technological change has led to both labor market dualization and rising unemployment levels, which in turn have had important effects on inequality and poverty. Labor strength—at both the society level and the enterprise level—has helped to counter rising market income inequality, as has a history of strong human capital spending. The generosity of the welfare state remains the most important factor shaping redistribution, while the consistent power of left parties is the common denominator behind both welfare state generosity and human capital investment.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1.       Introduction

Part I.          The Shapes and Determinants of Inequality: Broad Trends
Chapter 2.       Wage Dispersion
Chapter 3.       Household Income Inequality
Chapter 4.       Top Income Shares of National Income
Chapter 5.       Poverty
Chapter 6.       Social Policy
Chapter 7.       Social Investment versus Social Consumption?

Part II.         A Closer Look at Four Trajectories: Germany, Spain, Sweden, and the United States
Chapter 8.       Germany
Chapter 9.       Spain
Chapter 10.     Sweden
Chapter 11.     United States
Chapter 12.     The Cases Compared
Chapter 13.     Conclusion

Appendix A.   Figures and Tables, All Countries
Appendix B.    Figures and Tables, Case Studies
Appendix C.    Operationalization of Variables
Appendix D.   Statistical Estimations
Appendix E.    Alternative Statistical Estimators
Notes
References
Index