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What’s wrong with inequality?

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What’s wrong with inequality?
How inequality undermines institutions
Unjust inequalities: Is maximin the answer?
Relational equality, mutual benefit and social insurance

Attitudes to inequality

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Attitudes to inequalities
Perceptions and preferences for redistribution
Public perceptions of inequality in the UK: findings from quantitative research
Public perceptions of inequality in the UK: findings from qualitative research
Attitudes to inequality: preferences and beliefs

Trends in economic inequality

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Trends in income and wealth inequalities
Income inequality and income poverty in a cross-national perspective
Getting the measure of inequality
Twenty-five years of income inequality in Britain: the role of wages, household earnings and redistribution
Sociological measures of inequality

History of inequality

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Technical change, globalisation and the labour market: British and American experience since 1620
The history of inequality: the deep-acting ideological and institutional influences
Beyond technology and wages: power and the history of inequality

Political inequality

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Political inequality
Political Equality: What is it and why does it matter?
Political inequality: reasons for optimism?
Relational inequality in a (deeply) educationally polarised society: feasible strategies in the longer term

Gender

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Women and men at work
Gender revolution, evolution or neverlution?
Gendered economic inequalities: a social policy perspective
The other side of the mountain: women’s employment and earnings over the family cycle
Gender, immigration and ethnicity

Race and ethnicity

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Race and ethnicity
Race/ethnic inequalities in health: moving beyond confusion to focus on fundamental causes
What does sociological research tell us about ethnic inequalities in European labour markets?

Immigration

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Inequality and immigration
What does sociological research tell us about ethnic inequalities in European labour markets?
Immigration and inequality: the role of politics and policies

Health

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Health inequalities
The contribution of adult experiences, multimorbidity and positive psychological well-being to social inequalities in health
Socio-economic inequality in the distribution of healthcare in the UK
Health and inequality
Race/ethnic inequalities in health: moving beyond confusion to focus on fundamental causes
Inequalities in disability

Geography

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Spatial disparities across labour markets Spatial disparities across labour markets XLS
Place-based policies and geographical inequalities
Geographies of socio-economic inequality
Communities, places and inequality: a reflection
Levelling-up economics

Families

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Families and inequalities
Early childhood inequalities: the rocky path from observation to action
Individuals as active co-creators of their environments: implications for prevention of inequalities
The role of parenting in child development
How families matter for understanding economic inequality
Intergenerational mobility in the UK

Early childhood

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Early childhood inequalities
Early childhood inequalities: the rocky path from observation to action
Individuals as active co-creators of their environments: implications for prevention of inequalities
The role of parenting in child development

Education

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Education inequalities Education inequalities (XLS)
Relational inequality in a (deeply) educationally polarised society: feasible strategies in the longer term
The stubborn persistence of educational inequality
Measuring and understanding contemporary English educational inequalities
Private schools and inequality
Inequality in English post-16 education
Educational inequalities (event)

The labour market

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Labour market inequality
Labour market inequality: a comparative political economy perspective
Inequalities in the French labour market: a mixed picture
Twenty-five years of income inequality in Britain: the role of wages, household earnings and redistribution
Monopsony in local labour markets
A task-based approach to inequality
Public policy and labour market competition

Firms

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Firms and inequality 1 Firms and inequality 2
Market power and labour market inequality
Competition and the industrial challenge for the digital age?
The inclusive entrepreneurial state: collective wealth creation and distribution
Inequality, firms, ownership and governance
Innovation and inequalities

Trade and globalisation

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A primer on trade and inequality
Trade and price-index inequality
Trade and inequality in Europe and the US
Discussion of top incomes and tax policy
Top income inequality and tax policy

The benefits system

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Benefits and tax credits
Living at the sharp end of socio-economic inequality: everyday experiences of poverty and social security receipt
Transfers, taxes, and tax credits for those on low incomes: beyond Mirrlees
Why has the UK’s social security system become so means-tested?
The Welfare State and Inequality: were the UK reforms of the 1940s a success?
Inequality and the benefits system (1)
Inequality and the benefits system (2)
The distribution of public service spending