Reducing Inequalities

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Disposable Income Inequality, Cohesion and Crisis in Europe

Chapter 3 Drivers of Growing Income Inequalities in OECD and European Countries

Chapter 4 Unemployment, Precariousness and Poverty as Drivers of Social Inequality: The Case of the Southern European Countries

Chapter 5 Distributional and Categorical Inequalities in Europe: Structural Configurations

Chapter 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)

Chapter 7 Poverty and Social Exclusion Indicators in the European Union: The Role of Non-Monetary Deprivation Indicators

Chapter 8 Inequality of Outcomes and Opportunities Among the Young

Chapter 9 The European Union Social Tools in Question

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

Chapter 11 European Union and Human Rights: Reducing Inequalities and Asymmetries in the Context of the Economic Crisis

Chapter 12 Normative Arguments for a European Social Union

Chapter 13 Hayek’s Trap and the European Utopia We Need

Chapter 14 Wealth, Taxation and Inequality

Chapter 15 Conclusion: Back to the Future – Towards a European Social Agenda