New Inequalities by John Hills
It is recognised that the gap between rich and poor in Britain is widening faster than in any comparable country. This important issue is attracting increasing attention after long neglect. Economists and others concerned with problems linked with inequality are investigating factors contributing to the situation. Based on results of the first recent major research programme in this area, this book, first published in 1996, examines wealth distribution in the United Kingdom over the last two decades. Leading specialists in the area tackle the problem from a wide variety of perspectives. Contributions include: the analysis of income distribution; the effects of greater female participation in the labour force; social security reform; and geographical variation at the national and local scale. Understanding the complexity of these factors is crucial to designing policies which can begin to cope with income inequalities.John Hills is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the London School of Economics. His research interests include income distribution and the welfare state, social security, housing and taxation. He led an independent review of the
measurement of fuel poverty for the Department of Energy and Climate Change that reported in March 2012. He was also Chair of the National Equality Panel (2008-2010), carried out a review of the aims of social housing for the Secretary of State for Communities in 2006-07 and was one of the three
members of the UK Pensions Commission from 2003 to 2006. He was Co-Director of the LSE's Welfare State Programme (1988-1997), and Senior Adviser to the Commission of Inquiry into Taxation, Zimbabwe (1984-86). He worked at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (1982-84), for the House of Commons Select
Committee on the Treasury (1980-82), and at the Department of the Environment (1979-80). Francesca Bastagli is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics (LSE). Her research interests include income and wealth distribution, public policy evaluation and international comparative social policy. Prior to joining the LSE, she worked at
the World Bank in Washington DC (2002-2004) and at Bocconi University in Milan (2001-2002). She holds a Laurea in Economia Politica from Bocconi University and an MSc and PhD from the LSE. Frank Cowell is Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Director of the Public Economics Programme, STICERD. He is editor of Economica and Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality. His research interests include income and wealth distribution, inequality and poverty, and
issues in taxation. His work has appeared in several leading journals and his publications include The Economics of Poverty and Inequality (Edward Elgar, 2006), Microeconomics: Principles and Analysis (OUP, 2008), and Measuring Inequality, 3e (OUP, 2011). Howard Glennerster is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the LSE and an associate member of CASE. Over 40 years, he has written widely on public expenditure and public finance in the social policy field especially. He was a contributing author to the first edition of 'The State of Welfare: The
Economics of Social Spending' (OUP,1990) and co-editor of, and contributor to, the second edition (1998). He is co-author with John Hills and Tony Travers of' Paying for Health Education and Housing' (OUP, 2000), author of 'British Social Policy: 1945 to the Present' (Blackwells, 2007), and of
'Understanding the Finance of Welfare' published (Policy Press, 2e, 2008). Eleni Karagiannaki is Research Officer at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE. Abigail McKnight is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics. Dr McKnight's research interests include low wage employment and labour market inequality, the distribution of wealth, asset-based welfare, evaluation of active labour market
programmes, social mobility, and the economics of education.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521556989 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521556988 |
| Title | New Inequalities |
| Author | John Hills |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1996-05-31 |
| Number of pages | 424 |
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