Unequal Europe: Regional Integration and the Rise of European Inequality - Hardcover

Beckfield, Jason

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0190494255 ISBN 13: 9780190494254

Publisher: OUP USA, 2019

Synopsis

The Euro-crisis of 2009-2012 vividly demonstrated that European Union policies matter for the distribution of resources within and between European nation-states. Throughout the crisis, distributive conflicts between the EU's winners and losers worsened, and are still reverberating in European politics today. In Unequal Europe, Jason Beckfield demonstrates that there is a direct connection between European integration and the increase in European income inequality over the past four decades. He places the recent crisis into a broader sociological, political, and economic perspective by analyzing how European integration has reshaped the distribution of income across the households of Europe. Using individual-and household-level income survey data, combined with macro-level data on social policies, and case studies of welfare reforms in EU and non-EU states, Beckfield shows how European integration has re-stratified Europe by simultaneously drawing national economies closer together and increasing inequality among households. Explaining how, where, and why income inequality has changed in the EU, Unequal Europe answers the question: who wins and who loses from European integration?

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About the Author

Jason Beckfield is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. He teaches courses on social inequality and quantitative methods.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190494255
• ISBN 13: 9780190494254
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 308