Economic Well-Being and Inequality: Papers from the Fifth ECINEQ Meeting (Research on Economic Inequality, 22) - Hardcover

Bishop, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1783505672 ISBN 13: 9781783505678

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2014

Synopsis

Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 22 begins with papers of widespread interest on the impact of the Great Recession. The first paper addresses the impact of 'asset meltdown' on the wealth of the US middle class, with disparate racial and ethnic impacts. The second studies poverty and inequality in the US in the aftermath of the Great Recession. The next topic is on the evolution of poverty and inequality in the world. One paper proposes a new methodology to measure global poverty and inequality, while the second analyzes the importance of considering not only the desperately poor but also those just above the subsistence level. Great interest for inequality researchers lies on the use of wealth data. Two approaches to this issue are presented. Firstly, several papers study wealth inequality directly. Secondly, a paper uses annuitized wealth data to augment the income measure of economic well-being. An emerging field in the study of economic well-being is the use of self-reported status and perceptions data. Three papers employ this type of data, investigating happiness inequality, perception of income inequality, and the existence of a 'Great Gatsby Curve' for job mobility.

About this title

About the Author:

John Bishop - East Carolina University
Juan Gabriel Rodriguez - Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Review:

This book gathers 17 papers from a July 2013 meeting held in Bari, Italy, written by emerging and established scholars from around the world. The first three chapters employ wealth data to examine the asset price meltdown and household wealth during the recent US recession; cross-national differences in wealth portfolios and the potential role of policy; and evaluation of German inequality in income, consumption, and wealth. Later chapters detail methods for the measurement and evaluation of poverty and inequality around the world. There are also several papers on an emerging trend in the field: the use of self-reported status and perception data to study economic well-being. The book is distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --©2014 Ringgold Inc. Portland, OR (protoview.com)

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1783505672
• ISBN 13: 9781783505678
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 520