Reducing Inequalities A Challenge for the European Union?
This edited collection analyses social inequality in the European Union, within and between countries. The work critically explores both vertical inequality, existing between those with high incomes and low incomes, and horizontal inequality, existing bet
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Renato Miguel Carmo, Cédric Rio and Márton Medgyesi
Reducing Inequalities
Edited by
Renato Miguel Carmo • Cédric Rio Márton Medgyesi
Reducing Inequalities A Challenge for the European Union?
Editors Renato Miguel Carmo University of Lisbon Portugal
Cédric Rio Centre Maurice Halbwachs Paris, France
Márton Medgyesi TÁRKI, Social Research Institute and Institute for Sociology CSS Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest, Hungary
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Contents
1 Introduction Renato Miguel Carmo, Cédric Rio, and Márton Medgyesi
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Part I Inequality and Poverty in European Union
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2 Disposable Income Inequality, Cohesion and Crisis in Europe Michael Dauderstädt
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3 Drivers of Growing Income Inequalities in OECD and European Countries Guillaume Cohen and Maxime Ladaique
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4 Unemployment, Precariousness and Poverty as Drivers of Social Inequality: The Case of the Southern European Countries Renato Miguel Carmo and Ana Rita Matias
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5 Distributional and Categorical Inequalities in Europe: Structural Configurations António Firmino da Costa, Rosário Mauritti, Susana da Cruz Martins, Nuno Nunes, and Ana Lúcia Romão 6 Income Poverty in the EU: What Do We Actually Measure? Empirical Evidence on Choices, Underlying Assumptions and Implications (Based on EU-SILC 2005–2014) Orsolya Lelkes and Katrin Gasior 7 Poverty
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