How can egalitarian ideals be put into action? This ground-breaking book sets out a new
interdisciplinary model for equality studies. Integrating normative questions about the ideal …

The paper provides an overview of unemployment benefit systems in Central and Eastern
Europe during the 1990s. It describes their institutional features (eligibility, the level and …

This paper devises a new method for using the information contained in income-generating
equations to “account for” or “decompose” the level of income inequality in a country and its …

This article focuses on the welfare state, which includes social protection, health, education
and training, housing, and social services, but can also be conceived more broadly to …

Provides an overview of the Australian system of income support within the broader context
of social protection policies. Updating Peter Whiteford's original Policy Research Paper …

Cross-national comparisons can teach lessons about antipoverty policy. While all nations
value low poverty, high levels of economic self-reliance and equality of opportunity for …

In the six years since the appearance of the first edition of Stephen Smith's book, labour
economics has become a more firmly entrenched subject on the curriculum. Previously …

This paper attempts to clarify what trade-offs might exist between equity and growth. It is
found that (i) there is not enough evidence to state definitively that inequality is either good …

The purpose of this study is to summarize and comment upon what we know about the
determinants of both the level and trend in economic inequality over the past two decades …

Underemployment is generally conceived as excess labour supply associated with
employed persons—that is, as a situation where employed persons would like to work more …