Reducing Inequalities

1. Introduction
Renato Miguel Carmo, Cédric Rio, Márton Medgyesi

Part I. Inequality and Poverty in European Union

2. Disposable Income Inequality, Cohesion and Crisis in Europe
Michael Dauderstädt

3. Drivers of Growing Income Inequalities in OECD and European Countries
Guillaume Cohen, Maxime Ladaique

4. Unemployment, Precariousness and Poverty as Drivers of Social Inequality: The Case of the Southern European Countries
Renato Miguel Carmo, Ana Rita Matias

5. Distributional and Categorical Inequalities in Europe: Structural Configurations
António Firmino da Costa, Rosário Mauritti, Susana da Cruz Martins, Nuno Nunes, Ana Lúcia Romão

6. Income Poverty in the EU: What Do We Actually Measure? Empirical Evidence on Choices, Underlying Assumptions and Implications (Based on EU-SILC 2005–2014)
Orsolya Lelkes, Katrin Gasior

7. Poverty and Social Exclusion Indicators in the European Union: The Role of Non-Monetary Deprivation Indicators
Brian Nolan, Christopher T. Whelan

8. Inequality of Outcomes and Opportunities Among the Young
Márton Medgyesi

Part II. European Union against Inequality

9. The European Union Social Tools in Question
Cédric Rio

10. European Union Policy on Gender Equality: The Scope and Limits of Equality in the Single Market
Gwenaëlle Perrier

11. European Union and Human Rights: Reducing Inequalities and Asymmetries in the Context of the Economic Crisis
Beatriz Tomás Mallén

12. Normative Arguments for a European Social Union
Antoon Vandevelde

13. Hayek’s Trap and the European Utopia We Need
Philippe Van Parijs

14. Wealth, Taxation and Inequality
Thomas Piketty, Frederico Cantante

15. Conclusion: Back to the Future – Towards a European Social Agenda
Renato Miguel Carmo, Cédric Rio, Márton Medgyesi

Keywords: Social Sciences, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, European Union Politics, Public Policy, Comparative Social Policy