List of figures ............................................. ix
List of tables .............................................. xi
List of contributors ....................................... xii
Acknowledgements .......................................... xiii
Introduction: bridging theories and evidences of varieties
of inequality ................................................ 1
SEBASTIANO FADDA AND PASQUALE TRIDICO
PART I. Definitions and approaches .............................. 9
1 Not just slicing the pie: the need for a broader approach
to economic inequality ...................................... 11
PASQUALE DE MURO
2 Income inequality: what causes it and how to curb it ........ 22
SEBASTIANO FADDA
3 Gender, class and the crisis ................................ 48
VALERIA CIRILLO, MARCELLA CORSI AND CARLO D'IPPOLITI
4 Economic inequality, political power and political
decision-making: the case of the "middle-income trap" ....... 73
SVENJA FLECHTNER AND STEPHAN PANTHER
PART II. Empirical evidence and policy suggestions ............. 97
5 Welfare models, inequality and economic performance
during globalisation .......................................
PASQUALE TRIDICO
6 Labour market institutions and wage inequality within
education groups in Europe ................................. 113
CRISTIANO PERUGINI AND FABRIZIO POMPEI
7 Do rights matter? Comparing inequalities in the
governance of the EU ....................................... 144
CHARLES DANNREUTHER
8 Modern technologies, modem disparities: regional
inequalities in innovations in the EU countries ............ 157
JACEK WALLUSCH AND BEATA WOŹNIAK-JĘCHOREK
9 A classification of school-to-work transition regimes ...... 170
FRANCESCO PASTORE
10 Youth unemployment and the disadvantages of the young in
the labour market .......................................... 197
ENRICO MARELLI AND MARCELLO SIGNORELLI
Index ...................................................... 217
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