Inequality: Causes and Consequences

Outline

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 the transmission of income differences through generations remains substantial. In other words, many countries fail to experience upward economic mobility as was prevalent in the past. This volume contains original research on the causes and consequences of inequality. Topics include the way inequality is measured, the level of equal opportunities across countries, the impact of education, the effect of changing occupational structure, the consequences of changing productivity within the firm, the roles of stagnating average real wages, the decline of union membership, the effect of maternal labor supply on labor market outcomes of their children, and the link between income inequality and health.

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Chapters

• Daniele Checchi, Vito Peragine, Laura Serlenga Inequality of Opportunity in Europe: Is There a Role for Institutions?
• Luca Flabbi, James Mabli, Mauricio Salazar Household Lifetime Inequality Estimates in the U.S. Labor Market
• Bhashkar Mazumder Estimating the Intergenerational Elasticity and Rank Association in the United States: Overcoming the Current Limitations of Tax Data
• Johannes Ludwig Income Shocks or Insurance – What Determines Consumption Inequality?
• Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, James R. Spletzer The Role of Establishments and the Concentration of Occupations in Wage Inequality
• Nicole Fortin, Thomas Lemieux Inequality and Changes in Task Prices: Within and between Occupation Effects
• Tsunao Okumura, Emiko Usui Intergenerational Transmission of Skills and Differences in Labor Market Outcomes for Blacks and Whites
• Elena Crivellaro The College Wage Premium over Time: Trends in Europe in the Last 15 Years
• Stephen Machin Rising Wage Inequality, Real Wage Stagnation and Unions
• Martha H. Stinson, Peter Gottschalk Is There an Advantage to Working? The Relationship between Maternal Employment and Intergenerational Mobility
• Richard V. Burkhauser, Markus H. Hahn, Dean R. Lillard, Roger Wilkins Does Income Inequality in Early Childhood Predict Self-Reported Health in Adulthood? A Cross-National Comparison of the United States and Great Britain

• Volume Details
• Editors Lorenzo Cappellari, Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
• Publication date 25 February 2016
• ISBN 978-1-78560-811-7
• ISSN 0147-9121
• Copyright Holder Emerald Publishing Limited
• doi 10.1108/rlec