Table of Contents

1. What's behind the increase in inequality? An introduction Peter Gottschalk, Björn Gustafsson and Edward Palmer; 2. Policy changes and growing earnings inequality in seven industrialised countries Peter Gottschalk; 3. A survey of income inequality over the last twenty years - how does the UK compare? Karen Gardiner; 4. Economic adjustment and distributional change: income inequality and poverty in Australia in the 1980s Peter Saunders; 5. Unemployment, unemployment insurance and the distribution of income in Canada in the 1980s Lars Osberg, Sadettin Erksoy and Shelley Phipps; 6. Distribution of economic well-being in Japan: towards a more unequal society Toshiaki Tachibanaki and Tadashi Yagi; 7. Income inequality and poverty under transition from rapid inflation to stabilisation: Israel 1979–90 Lea Achdut; 8. Changes in inequality in Greece in the 1970s and the 1980s Panos Tsakloglou; 9. The development of income distribution in the Federal Republic of Germany during the 1970s and 1980s Richard Hauser and Irene Becker; 10. Income inequality and poverty in Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s Tim Callan and Brian Nolan; 11. Income distribution in France: the mid-1980s turning point Pierre Concialdi; 12. The distribution of economic well-being in the Netherlands, its evolution in the 1980s and the role of demographic change Ruud Muffels and Jan Nelissen; 13. Changes in Swedish inequality: a study of equivalent income 1975–91 Björn Gustafsson and Edward E. Palmer; 14. Income inequality and poverty in Finland in the 1980s Markus Jäntti and Veli Matti Ritakallio; 15. Disparities in the economic well-being of Hungarian society from the late 1970s to the 1980s Ödön Élteto; 16. The emergence of the Labour market and earnings distribution: the case of the Czech Republic Jiri Vecernik.

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This 1997 book charts and analyses the income distributional experiences of 15 industrial and post-industrial countries.