Persistent inequality: evolution of psychosocial exposures at work among the salaried population in Spain between 2005 and 2016

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mireia Utzet ◽  
Clara Llorens ◽  
David Moriña ◽  
Salvador Moncada
Keyword(s):  
Persistent Inequality

Social policy, target populations and policy analysis in Colombia

2020 ◽  
pp. 223-238
Author(s):  
Santiago Leyva ◽  
Carlos Andrés Olaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Redistributive Policy ◽  
Target Populations ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
Persistent Inequality ◽  
Policy Target

This chapter explores persistent inequality and poverty for historically excluded groups despite dramatically increased expenditures in social policy as an issue of considerable importance in Colombia. It illustrates how the truncated nature of the Colombian welfare system contributes to the problem of poverty and inequality. It also documents how even the widespread use of targeted social policies for specific populations cannot attain the redistributive policy outcomes associated with a more general approach to welfare policy. The chapter introduces the general changes to social policies by looking into the expansion of basic welfare and then exploring the evolution of policy targeting. It points out the limited achievements of Colombia in terms of the redistribution of income through the concept of the truncated state.

Persistent Inequality: Changing Educational Attainment in Thirteen Countries

1994 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 413
Author(s):  
Denis Lawton ◽  
Y. Shavit ◽  
H. P. Blossfeld
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Persistent Inequality

Unequal Societies: Income Distribution and the Social Contract

2000 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Bénabou
Keyword(s):  
Social Contract ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Education Finance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Insurance Markets ◽  
Redistributive Policies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Persistent Inequality

This paper develops a theory of inequality and the social contract aiming to explain how countries with similar economic and political “fundamentals” can sustain such different systems of social insurance, fiscal redistribution, and education finance as those of the United States and Western Europe. With imperfect credit and insurance markets some redistributive policies can improve ex ante welfare, and this implies that their political support tends to decrease with inequality. Conversely, with credit constraints, lower redistribution translates into more persistent inequality; hence the potential for multiple steady states, with mutually reinforcing high inequality and low redistribution, or vice versa. (JEL D31, E62, P16, O41, I22)

Falling Far from the Tree

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 625-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Stanger-Ross ◽  
Christina Collins ◽  
Mark J. Stern
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social History ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
General Trend ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Transitions To Adulthood ◽  
Successive Generations ◽  
The University ◽  
Persistent Inequality

Employing the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series of the University of Minnesota, we chronicle the changing timing and duration of transitions to adulthood in the twentieth century. Successive generations of young Americans reinvented the transition to adulthood to accommodate shifts in the economy and the American state. The patterned choices of young people delineate three eras of social history in the twentieth century: the era of reciprocity (1900–1950), the era of dependence (1950–70s), and the era of autonomy (1970s-2000). We also explain why African Americans differed from the general trend; they developed distinctive transitions to adulthood in response to persistent inequality.

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