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Machine generated contents note: pt. I Where Do We Stand? Why Is It So? -- 1.Growing Income Inequalities in Advanced Countries / Michel Dumont -- 1.1.Introduction -- 1.2.Stylized facts -- 1.2.1.Growing wage inequality -- 1.2.2.Growing income inequality -- 1.2.3.Globalization and North-South trade --...

Contents note continued: 1.5.5.Labour market polarization and trade-in-tasks models -- 1.6.Concluding remarks -- 2.Inequality in Emerging Countries / Joel Hellier -- 2.1.Introduction -- 2.2.Inequality in emerging countries: what the data say -- 2.2.1.Asian countries -- 2.2.2.Latin America -- 2.2.3.O...

Contents note continued: 2.5.2.Assessing the Kuznets hypothesis -- 2.5.3.Overall estimations -- 2.5.4.Asian countries -- 2.5.5.Latin America -- 2.5.6.Other countries -- 2.6.Conclusion -- 3.The Working Poor / Ekaterina Kalugina -- 3.1.Introduction -- 3.2.The working poor: definitions -- 3.2.1.Poverty...

Contents note continued: 4.2.Globalization and inequality: stylized facts -- 4.3.The traditional NS-HOS model and its shortfalls -- 4.3.1.The NS-HOS model -- 4.3.2.Stylized facts against the NS-HOS model -- 4.4.The NS-HOS model outside the diversification cone -- 4.4.1.The diversification cone -- 4....

Contents note continued: 4.8.2.The impact of skill upgrading -- 4.8.3.Capital-skill complementarlty -- 4.8.4.The NS-HOS model with a continuum of goods -- 4.9.General assessment and conclusion -- 5.Is there a Trade-off between Wage Inequality and Unemployment? / Michel Dumont -- 5.1.Introduction --...

Contents note continued: 6.2.The impact of globalization upon labour bargaining -- 6.2.1.Aims and scopes of labour market bargaining: a short review -- 6.2.2.Globalization and bargaining when labour demand elasticity increases -- 6.2.3.Globalization and bargaining when labour demand elasticity decre...

Contents note continued: 7.4.1.Inequality within the working population -- 7.4.2.Efficiency wages and inequality at the national level -- 7.5.Inequality between nations -- 7.6.Conclusion -- pt. IV Inequality, Education and Growth -- 8.Education, Intergenerational Mobility and Inequality / B. Ben-Hal...

Contents note continued: 8.5.6.History matters -- 8.6.Empirical evidence -- 8.6.1.Methods -- 8.6.2.Income intergenerational mobility -- 8.6.3.Human capital intergenerational mobility -- 8.7.Conclusion -- 9.Inequality, Growth and Welfare: The Main Links / Stephane Lambrecht -- 9.1.Introduction -- 9.2...

Contents note continued: 9.5.2.Market inefficiencies -- 9.6.Conclusion.