Tag Archives: cross-national research

The perception of inequality of opportunity – and the reality

Posted on April 6, 2017 by

In a guest post, Paolo Brunori – an Assistant Professor at the University of Bari, and blogger at Lavoce – summarises his new paper on the perception of inequality of opportunity in Europe, recently published in the Review of Income and … Continue reading →

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U.S. Health Disadvantage is Not Inevitable

Posted on July 20, 2013 by

Two major research studies in the last year compare health indicators in the United States with other major upper-income countries. Both exhaustively review government statistics and published articles. The first study, from the Institute of Medicine, draws on a panel … Continue reading →

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Educational Inequalities in Parents’ Time with Children

Posted on July 5, 2013 by

In a guest post, Pablo Gracia looks at inequalities in how parents spend time with their children, using his own research on the UK and Spain – and then considers the likely causes, consequences, and what this might all mean for … Continue reading →

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Is ‘the paradox of redistribution’ dead?

Posted on June 27, 2013 by

It has all the makings of a great academic fist-fight.* In a classic 1998 article, Walter Korpi and Joakim Palme wrote a hugely influential article called ‘the paradox of redistribution,’ which argued that a targeted benefit system ended up achieving … Continue reading →

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Social Progress – A League Table

Posted on April 12, 2013 by

Strange though it is to say, but alternatives to GDP are becoming fashionable. This week saw the launch of a new measure of ‘social progress’ on which to rank countries – and perhaps surprisingly, Britain did really rather well, not … Continue reading →

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British and U.S. Inequality Over the Lifecourse: An Important New Report

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

Ben and I both attended the Social Change Harvard-Manchester Initiative (SCHMi) summer institute in 2010, a joint program between the University of Manchester and Harvard. A core group of SCHMi researchers just released a report, authored by Rourke O’Brien (also … Continue reading →

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Converging Income Inequality in Brazil and the United States: Some Uncomfortable Realities

Posted on February 23, 2013 by

Professor Fernando Luiz Lara from the University of Texas at Austin discusses the political and social dimensions of changing income inequality in Brazil and the United States. The US will become as unequal as Brazil.  And that bothers both societies. As we … Continue reading →

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Microclass mobility (and its critics)

Posted on January 31, 2013 by

A few weeks ago I blogged about the idea of looking at class inequality in terms of ‘microclasses’ – that is, instead of looking at ‘big class’ inequality (e.g.  professionals vs. manual workers), we look at ‘microclass’ inequality (e.g. welders … Continue reading →

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The positive and negative consequences of the welfare state

Posted on October 25, 2012 by

In a previous post, I argued that people had exaggerated the extent to which public support for the benefits system had fallen in Britain. Here, I want to look at another aspect of this that also came out recently – … Continue reading →

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When the insecure are not the disadvantaged

Posted on August 14, 2012 by

Amidst all the other excitements of the summertime, you might have missed a couple of significant papers by top scholars in top American journals. So just to mentally prepare you for the autumn – don’t worry, it’s not here yet! … Continue reading →

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