Dimensions of Inequality in Canada
David A. Green Jonathan R. Kesselman
$85.00 Hardcover
Release Date: 8/30/2006
ISBN: 0774812079
496 Pages
About the Book
Is Canada becoming a more polarized society? Or is it a kind-hearted nation
that takes care of its disadvantaged? This volume closely examines these
differing views through a careful analysis of the causes, trends, and
dimensions of inequality to provide an overall assessment of the state of
inequality in Canada. Contributors include economists, sociologists,
philosophers, and political scientists, and the discussion ranges from
frameworks for thinking about inequality, to original analyses using
Canadian data, to assessments of significant policy issues, methodologies,
and research directions. What emerges is the most detailed picture of
inequality in Canada to date and, disturbingly, one that shows signs of us
becoming a less just society.
An invaluable source of information for policy makers, researchers, and
students from a broad variety of disciplines, Dimensions of Inequality in
Canada will also appeal to readers interested or involved in public debates
over inequality.
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About the Author(s)
David A. Green is Professor of Economics at the University of British
Columbia.
Jonathan R. Kesselman is Canada Research Chair in Public Finance with the
Graduate Public Policy Program at Simon Fraser University.
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Table of Contents
Figures and Tables
1 Dimensions of Inequality in a Just Society / David A. Green and Jonathan
R. Kesselman
2 Normative Dimensions of Inequality / Colin M. Macleod and Avigail
Eisenberg
3 Rising Income Inequality in the 1990s: An Exploration of Three Data
Sources / Marc Frenette, David A. Green, and Garnett Picot
4 How Has Earnings Mobility in Canada Changed? / Charles M. Beach
5 Consumption Inequality in Canada / Thomas F. Crossley and Krishna
Pendakur
6 How Much Does Employment Matter for Inequality in Canada and Elsewhere? /
Lars Osberg
7 Inequalities in Political and Community Participation / James Curtis,
Edward Grabb, and Thomas Perks
8 Fitting Kids In: Children and Inequality in Canada / Shelley Phipps and
Lynn Lethbridge
9 Ethnic Inequality in Canada: Economic and Health Dimensions / Ellen M.
Gee, Karen M. Kobayashi, and Steven G. Prus
10 Recent Trends in Wage Inequality and the Wage Structure in Canada /
Brahim Boudarbat, Thomas Lemieux, and W. Craig Riddell
11 Gender Dimensions of Changes in Earnings Inequality in Canada / Nicole
M. Fortin and Tammy Schirle
12 Taxation Impacts on Inequality in Canada: Methodologies and Findings /
Jonathan R. Kesselman and Ron Cheung
13 Dis-embedding Liberalism? The New Social Policy Paradigm in Canada /
Keith G. Banting
Contributors
Index
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Reviews
Too often inequality is considered only in terms of incomes. This book,
written by some of the best researchers in the field, expands the economic
perspective to include consumption, time, and participation. And it focuses
on specific groups for which inequality is a compelling issue: kids, women,
and ethnic groups. Its multidimensional perspective on inequality in Canada
is so successful that it could be a model for future attempts in other
countries.
– Barbara Boyle Torrey, co-editor of The Vulnerable
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