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List of Contributors	vii
Introduction	ix
Chapter 1 Inequality and Real Income Growth for Middle- and Low-Income Households across Rich Countries in Recent Decades
Brian Nolan and Stefan Thewissen	1
Chapter 2 Income Redistribution through Taxes and Transfers across OECD Countries
Orsetta Causa and Mikkel Hermansen	29
Chapter 3 Measuring Directional Mobility: The Bartholomew and Prais–Bibby Indices Reconsidered
Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, Nora Lustig and Rodrigo Aranda	75
Chapter 4 On the Measurement of Multi-Period Income Mobility
Marek Kosny, Jacques Silber and Gaston Yalonetzky	97
Chapter 5 Rising Educational Attainment and Opportunity Equalization: Evidence from France
Francesco Andreoli, Arnaud Lefranc and Vincenzo Prete	123
Chapter 6 Household Size and Poverty
Alessio Fusco and Nizamul Islam	151
Chapter 7 An Economics-Based Rationale for the Rawlsian Social Welfare Program
Oded Stark	179
Chapter 8 The Measurement of Wage Discrimination with Imperfect Information: A Finite Mixture Approach
Juan Prieto-Rodríguez, Juan Gabriel Rodríguez and Rafael Salas	187
Index	205

List of Contributors	vii
Introduction	ix
Chapter 1 Inequality and Real Income Growth for Middle- and Low-Income Households across Rich Countries in Recent Decades
Brian Nolan and Stefan Thewissen	1
Chapter 2 Income Redistribution through Taxes and Transfers across OECD Countries
Orsetta Causa and Mikkel Hermansen	29
Chapter 3 Measuring Directional Mobility: The Bartholomew and Prais–Bibby Indices Reconsidered
Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, Nora Lustig and Rodrigo Aranda	75
Chapter 4 On the Measurement of Multi-Period Income Mobility
Marek Kosny, Jacques Silber and Gaston Yalonetzky	97
Chapter 5 Rising Educational Attainment and Opportunity Equalization: Evidence from France
Francesco Andreoli, Arnaud Lefranc and Vincenzo Prete	123
Chapter 6 Household Size and Poverty
Alessio Fusco and Nizamul Islam	151
Chapter 7 An Economics-Based Rationale for the Rawlsian Social Welfare Program
Oded Stark	179
Chapter 8 The Measurement of Wage Discrimination with Imperfect Information: A Finite Mixture Approach
Juan Prieto-Rodríguez, Juan Gabriel Rodríguez and Rafael Salas	187
Index	205

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