Inequality and Inclusive Growth in Rich Countries

Shared Challenges and Contrasting Fortunes

Edited by Brian Nolan

Brings together separate literatures on rising inequality, economic growth, wages, and labour force participation to formulate a joint focus on inequality and growth
Takes a comparative case-study approach
Studies 10 major countries in depth

Inequality and Inclusive Growth in Rich Countries

Shared Challenges and Contrasting Fortunes

Edited by Brian Nolan

Description

Rising inequality in income and wealth across the OECD has been widely recognised and identified as a major concern; Inequality and Inclusive Growth in Rich Countries links this phenomenon with stagnation in wages and incomes for ordinary working households in order to address the challenge of promoting growth and prosperity.

The concentration of wealth at the top of society is now seen as a threat to social and political stability. Inequality and Inclusive Growth in Rich Countries aims to identify what structures and policies are associated with success or failure in limiting the rise in inequality and promoting income growth for those in the middle and lower reaches of the income distribution. It analyses the varying experiences of ten rich countries over recent decades in depth, revealing that there are indeed responses that governments and societies can adopt, and that stagnation and rising inequality do not have to be accepted, but can be combatted given the political will and capacity.

Inequality and Inclusive Growth in Rich Countries

Shared Challenges and Contrasting Fortunes

Edited by Brian Nolan

1:Introduction, Brian Nolan
2:Inequality and Living Standards: Key Trends and Drivers, Michael Förster and Brian Nolan
3:Left Behind? Inequality and Inclusive Growth - Assessing the Australian experience, Peter Whiteford and Daniel Nethery
4:Belgium, a poster child for inclusive growth?, Ive Marx and Gerlinde Verbist
5:Canada's Middle Class - Forever Further Behind?, Lars Osberg
6:France: rising precariousness supported by the welfare state, Philippe Askenazy and Bruno Palier
7:Understanding Rising Income Inequality and Stagnating Ordinary Living Standards in Germany, Gerhard Bosch and Thorsten Kalina
8:Inequality Amid Stagnation: Italy Over the Last Quarter of a Century, Andrea Brandolini, Romina Gambacorta, and Alfonso Rosolia
9:How has the middle fared in the Netherlands? A tale of stagnation and population shifts, Wiemer Salverda and Stefan Thewissen
10:The driving forces of rising inequality in Spain: Is there more to it than a deep worsening of low income households' living standards?, Luis Ayala and Olga Cantó
11:Inequality and inclusive growth: the case of the UK, Damian Grimshaw, Anthony Rafferty, and Matt Whittaker
12:America's Great Decoupling, Lane Kenworthy
13:Conclusions and Implications, Brian Nolan

Inequality and Inclusive Growth in Rich Countries

Shared Challenges and Contrasting Fortunes

Edited by Brian Nolan

Author Information

Edited by Brian Nolan, Director, Employment Equity and growth programme, INET; Professor of Social Policy, Department of Social Policy and Social Intervention, University of Oxford; Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College

Brian Nolan is Director of the Employment, Equity and Growth Programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford Martin School, Professor of Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford. His main areas of research are income inequality, poverty, and the economics of social policy, on which he has published widely.

Contributors:

Philippe Askenazy
Luis Ayala
Gerhard Bosch
Andrea Brandolini
Olga Cantó
Michael F. Förster
Romina Gambacorta
Damian Grimshaw
Thorsten Kalina
Lane Kenworthy
Ive Marx
Daniel Nethery
Brian Nolan
Lars Osberg
Bruno Palier
Anthony Raftery
Alfonso Rosolia
Wiemer Salverda
Stefan Thewissen
Gerlinde Verbist
Peter Whiteford
Matthew Whittaker