Income inequality : economic disparities and the middle class in affluent countries / edited by Janet C. Gornick and Markus Jäntti.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

How has income inequality grown? : the reshaping of the income distribution in LIS countries / Arthur S. Alderson and Kevin Doran -- On the identification of the middle class / Anthony Atkinson and Andrea Brandolini -- Has rising inequality reduced middle-class income growth? / Lane Kenworthy -- Welfare regimes, cohorts and the middle classes / Louis Chauvel -- Political sources of government redistribution in high-income countries / Vincent A. Mahler, David K. Jesuit and Piotr R. Paradowski -- Income distribution, inequality perception and redistributive preferences in European countries / István György Tóth and Tamás Keller -- Women's employment and household income inequality / Susan Harkness -- Women's employment, unpaid work, and economic inequality / Nancy Folbre, Janet C. Gornick, Helen Connolly and Teresa Munzi -- Women's work, family earnings, and public policy / Margarita Estévez-Abe and Tanja Hethey -- The distribution of assets and debt / Eva Sierminska, Timothy M. Smeeding and Serge Allegrezza -- The joint distribution of income and wealth / Markus Jäntti, Eva Sierminska and Philippe Van Kerm -- The fourth retirement pillar in rich countries / Bruce Bradbury -- Public pension entitlements and the distribution of wealth / Joachim R. Frick and Markus M. Grabka -- Income and wealth inequality in Japan / Colin McKenzie -- Income inequality in boom and bust : a tale from Iceland's bubble economy / Stefán Ólafsson and Arnaldur Sölvi Kristjánsson -- Horizontal and vertical inequalities in India / Reeve Vanneman and Amaresh Dubey -- Post-apartheid changes in South African inequality / Murray Leibbrandt, Ingrid Woolard and Arden Finn.

"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."--Publisher's website.

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