Reducing Inequalities

Renato Miguel Carmo is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL) and Assistant Professor at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), Portugal. He is Director of the Observatory of Inequalities and member of the European research network, Inequality Watch. Issues such as social and spatial inequalities, public policy, mobilities and social capital have been at the core of his research projects.Cédric Rio is a philosopher specialised in social justice and inequality and he is currently a researcher at the Centre Maurice Halbwachs (CNRS/EHESS/ENS) in France. He is the coordinator of Inequality Watch, an independent European research network. Márton Medgyesi is Senior Researcher at both the TARKI Social Research Institute, Hungary and at the Institute for Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He holds an MSc in Applied Economics from Sciences Po, France and a PhD in Sociology from Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary.

“The book discusses the issue from different perspectives using various indicators such as income and economic inequalities, poverty and social exclusion, categorical inequalities and social class and educational inequalities. … It is an interesting read for all irrespective of ones’ educational background – and for those who want to know more about the challenges relating to inequality that Europe currently faces.” (Abhishek, European Journal of Social Security, Vol. 21(1), 2019)

• 1. Introduction .- Section 1: Inequality and Poverty in European Union .- 2. Disposable Income Inequality, Cohesion and Crisis in Europe.- 3. Drivers of Growing Income Inequalities in OECD and European Countries.- 4. Unemployment, Precariousness and Poverty as Drivers of Social Inequality: The Case of the Southern European Countries.- 5. Distributional and Categorical Inequalities in Europe: Structural Configurations.- 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).- 7. Poverty and Social Exclusion Indicators in the European Union: The Role of Non-Monetary Deprivation Indicators.- 8. Inequality of Outcomes and Opportunities Among the Young.- Section 2: European Union Against Inequality .- 9. The European Union Social Tools in Question.- 10. European Union Policy on Gender Equality: The Scope and Limits of Equality in the SingleMarket.- 11. European Union and Human Rights: Reducing Inequalities and Asymmetries in the Context of the Economic Crisis.- 12. Normative Arguments for a European Social Union.- 13. Hayek’s Trap and the European Utopia We Need.- 14. Wealth, Taxation and Inequality.- 15. Conclusion: Back to the Future: Towards a European Social Agenda.