Inequality: What Can Be Done?

By Anthony B. Atkinson. 2013

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Technological change and employment: is Europe ready for the challenge? (2018, neutral): “1 Atkinson (2015) discusses the changing nature of ‘jobs’ in contemporary economies.”
Economic inequality – Is entrepreneurship the cause or the solution? A review and research agenda for emerging economies (2021, background): “We choose to focus on outcomes because economic outcomes in one period typically affect the inputs over time (Atkinson, 2015).”
Technological change, rent and income inequalities: A Schumpeterian approach (2017, background): “An inclusive review of the literature by Franzini and Pianta (2016) effectively summarizes the basic argument according to which the raising levels of income inequality have direct negative consequences that include both: i) the negative economic effects stemming from a decline in marginal propensit”
Digital technologies, innovation, and skills: emerging trajectories and challenges (2021, background): “The digital age has also been accompanied by a steep increase in inequality (Atkinson, 2015; Piketty, 2014), which has been explained in many ways.”
What Remains of Cross-Country Convergence? (2018, background): “” Excellent examples on world income distribution and global inequality include Milanovic’s early paper (1997) that lays down many of the issues discussed by the subsequent literature, Bourguignon and Morrisson (2002), Atkinson and Brandolini (2004), Sala-i-Martin (2009), Deaton (2010),”
Social investment as a policy paradigm (2018, background): “…at relatively low social costs, as parenting services, education, active labour market, health and long-term care interventions contribute to higher employment and long-term productivity gains across all economic sectors, to service and protect Europe’s ageig populations (Atkinson 2015; Wren 2017).”
Mobile Money and the Economy: A Review of the Evidence (2018, background): “Atkinson (2015) has argued that economic inequality is often aligned with differences in access to, use of, or knowledge of information and communication technologies.”
CENTRAL BANK POLICIES AND INCOME AND WEALTH INEQUALITY: A SURVEY (2019, neutral): “Since the early 1980s, income and wealth inequality have risen in many advanced economies (Atkinson, 2015; Piketty, 2014).”
Trade union revitalisation: Where are we now? Where to next? (2017, background): “Market income inequality is on the rise in almost every country, redistribution is weakening and the functional distribution of income has greatly tilted towards capital owners (Atkinson, 2015).”
Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization. By Branko Milanovic. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. ix + 299 pp. Figures, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-73713-6 (2017, background): “Scholars who addressed the inequality issues include Atkinson (2015) and Bourguignon (2015). Milanovic asserts that what kept the hypothesis established was the absence of a coherent alternative explanation for the recent rise in inequality in advanced countries (2016, 47).”