Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Foreword xiii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Contributors xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I: Income: Trends in Household Income Inequality
8. Chapter One. How Has Income Inequality Grown? The Reshaping of the Income Distribution in LIS Countries 51
9. PART II: The Middle Class: The Middle Class in the Income Distribution
10. Chapter Two. On the Identification of the Middle Class 77
11. Chapter Three. Has Rising Inequality Reduced Middle-Class Income Growth? 101
12. Chapter Four. Welfare Regimes, Cohorts, and the Middle Classes 115
13. PART III: Politics: Inequality, Political Behavior, and Public Opinion
14. Chapter Five. Political Sources of Government Redistribution in High-Income Countries 145
15. Chapter Six. Income Distribution, Inequality Perceptions, and Redistributive Preferences in European Countries 173
16. Part IV: Employment: Women’s Work, Inequality, and the Economic Status of Families
17. Chapter Seven. Women’s Employment and Household Income Inequality 207
18. Chapter Eight. Women’s Employment, Unpaid Work, and Economic Inequality 234
19. Chapter Nine. Women’s Work, Family Earnings, and Public Policy 261
20. Part V: Wealth: The Distribution of Assets and Debt
21. Chapter Ten. The Distribution of Assets and Debt 285
22. Chapter Eleven. The Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth 312
23. Chapter Twelve. The Fourth Retirement Pillar in Rich Countries 334
24. Chapter Thirteen. Public Pension Entitlements and the Distribution of Wealth 362
25. Part VI: Country Case Studies: Inequality in Japan, Iceland, India, and South Africa
26. Chapter Fourteen. Income and Wealth Inequality in Japan 389
27. Chapter Fifteen. Income Inequality in Boom and Bust: A Tale from Iceland’s Bubble Economy 416
28. Chapter Sixteen. Horizontal and Vertical Inequalities in India 439
29. Chapter Seventeen. Post-Apartheid Changes in South African Inequality 459
30. Conclusion 487
31. Index 497
32. Studies in Social Inequality 517