Inequality and the state / John Hills
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- Hills, John, 1954-
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004
- xviii, 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- 0199276633
- 0199276641
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- Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction 1
- I: INCOME INEQUALITY AND POVERTY IN BRITAIN
- 2. Income Inequality in the UK: Extent and Trends 9
- 2.1 The Current Position 9
- 2.2 Recent Trends in Income Distribution 20
- 2.3 International Comparisons of Income Inequality 28
- 2.4 Distribution of Wealth 30
- 2.5 Public Attitudes to Inequality 32
- 2.6 Summary 36
- 3. Poverty, Deprivation, and Exclusion 39
- 3.1 Poverty and Deprivation: How Can We Measure Them? 39
- 3.2 Trends in Numbers with Low Incomes 47
- 3.3 Social Exclusion 52
- 3.4 International Comparisons of Relative Poverty and
- Wider Measures 56
- 3.5 Public Attitudes to Poverty 59
- 3.6 Summary 69
- 4. Why Has the Income Distribution Changed? 72
- 4.1 The Composition of Household Income 72
- 4.2 Earnings Distribution 75
- 4.3 Why Has Earnings Dispersion Widened? 79
- 4.4 Unemployment, Worklessness, and Economic Inactivity 83
- 4.5 Other Sources of Market Income 87
- 4.6 The Impact of Policy: Benefit Levels and Taxation 90
- 4.7 Summary 94
- 5. Income Dynamics and Social Mobility 97
- 5.1 Why Examine Income Dynamics? 97
- 5.2 How Much Mobility Is There? Income Dynamics
- in the 1990s 98
- 5.3 Who Escapes from Poverty? Who Remains Poor? 102
- 5.4 What Patterns do People's Incomes Follow? 106
- 5.5 Is Mobility Increasing or Declining? 113
- 5.6 International Comparisons of Income Mobility 114
- 5.7 Longer-Term Continuities and Social Mobility 116
- 5.8 Summary 121
- II: THE IMPACT OF POLICY
- 6. Social Spending and the Boundaries Between Public
- and Private Sectors 127
- 6.1 What Has Happened to Social Spending? 127
- 6.2 Social Security Spending and Structure 133
- 6.3 International Comparisons of Social Spending 138
- 6.4 Analysing Public-Private Boundaries 141
- 6.5 Public Attitudes to Social Security and Private
- Provision 148
- 6.6 Summary 157
- 7. Tax and Welfare 160
- 7.1 The Level of Taxation and Public Spending 160
- 7.2 The Structure of Taxation 164
- 7.3 The Interaction Between Tax and Social Security 171
- 7.4 Public Attitudes to Tax Levels and Structure 176
- 7.5 Summary 182
- 8. Distribution and Redistribution 184
- 8.1 Analysing Redistribution 184
- 8.2 Cross-sectional Redistribution 187
- 8.3 Taking Account of Taxation 193
- 8.4 Life-cycle Redistribution 195
- 8.5 Intergenerational Distribution 198
- 8.6 Public Attitudes to Redistribution 200
- 8.7 Summary 203
- III: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
- 9. New Labour, Welfare, and Distribution 209
- 9.1 What's 'New' about'New Labour'? 209
- 9.2 New Labour's Policies 211
- 9.3 Policy Outcomes Under New Labour 220
- 9.4 Summary 233
- 10. Constraints and Pressures 236
- 10.1 Affluence and Economic Growth 236
- 10.2 A Demographic Time Bomb? 240
- 10.3 Ageing and Pensions 246
- 10.4 Incentives and Means-testing 255
- 10.5 Summary 258
- 11. Conclusions: The Spending Pit or the Tax Pendulum? 261
- References 273
- Index 285.
- Notes:
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- "...ESRC Research Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics"--Acknowledgements.
- "Some parts of chapters 2, 4, 5, 6 and 8 draw on material that was previously published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation"--Acknowledgements.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-284) and index.
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