Edited by Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright
The issues surrounding poverty and inequality continue to be of central concern to academics, politicians and policy makers but the way in which we seek to study and understand them continues to change over time. This accessible new 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 increases 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 enables cross national comparisons not only of income variables but also of measures of welfare such as education 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.
Introduction
1. Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright: New Directions in the Analysis of Inequality and Poverty
Conceptual Issues
2. Martin Ravallion: Inequality is Bad for the Poor
3. Andrea Brandolini: Measurement of Income Distribution in Supranational
Entities: The Case of the European Union
4. Ann Harding, Rachel Lloyd, and Neil Warren: Beyond Conventional Measures of Income: Including Indirect Benefits and Taxes
5. Peter Burton, Shelley Phipps, and Frances Woolley: Inequality Within the Household Reconsidered
Multiple
Dimensions
6. John Micklewright and Sylke Schnepf: Inequality of Learning in Industrialised Countries
7. Brian Nolan and Christopher T. Whelan: On the Multidimensionality of Poverty and Social Exclusion
8. Lorenzo Cappellari and Stephen P. Jenkins: Summarizing Multiple Deprivation
Indicators
9. Jean-Yves Duclos, David Sahn, and Stephen Younger: Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons with Discrete Indicators of Well-Being
Public Policy
10. Holly Sutherland, Horacio Levy, and Christine Lietz: A Guaranteed Income for Europe's Children?
11. Stephen
Bazen: The Impact of Minimum Wages on the Distribution of Earnings and Employment in the USA
12. Alison L. Booth and Mark Bryan: Minimum Wages, Training, and the Distribution of Earnings
13. Bernd Süssmuth and Robert K. von Weizsäcker: Government Debt and the Portfolios of the Rich
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Stephen P. Jenkins is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, UK, and Chairperson of the Council of the International Association for Research on Income and Wealth. His current research focuses on income and labour market
dynamics, and survival analysis. John Micklewright is a Professor in Social Statistics in the School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, UK. He was previously Head of Research at UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence, and Professor of Economics at the European University Institute
and Queen Mary, University of London. His current research focuses on labour market flows, education, and charitable donations.
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