TY - BOOK ID - 545885 TI - Income inequality : economic disparities and the middle class in affluent countries AU - Gornick, Janet C. AU - Jäntii, Markus PY - 2013 SN - 9780804778244 9780804793346 9780804786751 0804786755 0804778248 0804793344 PB - Stanford (Calif.): Stanford university press, DB - UniCat KW - Social stratification KW - Income KW - Economics KW - Sociology KW - Politics KW - HC - ECONOMIC HISTORY AND CONDITIONS KW - Income distribution KW - Middle class KW - Bourgeoisie KW - Commons (Social order) KW - Middle classes KW - Social classes KW - Distribution of income KW - Income inequality KW - Inequality of income KW - Distribution (Economic theory) KW - Disposable income KW - Social conditions KW - E-books KW - Income distribution. KW - Middle class. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:545885 AB - This state-of-the-art volume presents comparative, empirical research on a topic that has long preoccupied scholars, politicians, and everyday citizens: economic inequality. While income and wealth inequality across all populations is the primary focus, the contributions to this book pay special attention to the middle class, a segment often not addressed in inequality literature. Written by leading scholars in the field of economic inequality, all 17 chapters draw on microdata from the databases of LIS, an esteemed cross-national data center based in Luxembourg. Using LIS data to structure a comparative approach, the contributors paint a complex portrait of inequality across affluent countries at the beginning of the 21st century. The volume also trail-blazes new research into inequality in countries newly entering the LIS databases, including Japan, Iceland, India, and South Africa. ER -