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Prelims -- Chapter 1: Inheritance taxation: redistribution and predistribution -- Chapter 2: a note on progressive taxation and inequality equivalence -- Chapter 3: Income and wealth distributions in a neoclassical growth model with σ 1 -- Chapter 4: Applying the decomposition of the Foster and Wolfson bipolarization index to earnings functions -- Chapter 5: the counting approach to multidimensional food security measurement: the case of Israel -- Chapter 6: The impact of education on income inequality in Latin America between 2000 and 2010 -- Chapter 7: Income inequality and inequality of opportunity in Europe: are they on the rise? -- Chapter 8: Macro-economic determinants of cross-country differences in intergenerational transmission of economic disadvantage in Europe -- Chapter 9: Long-run factors influencing intergenerational perceived job status mobility -- Chapter 10: Misperceptions: an analysis of subjective economic inequality -- Chapter 11: Democracy and equality preferences -- About the editors -- Index.

Research on Economic Inequality, volume 26, primarily contains papers presented at the 8th Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) meeting. The papers cover such topics as the effect of inheritance taxation on the "pre-distribution" of income, and tax progressivity under alternative inequality definitions. Other papers address the evolution of wealth inequality (Piketty's "r-g"), the decomposition of the determinants of wage bi-polarization, a multidimensional analysis of food insecurity in Israel, and the "paradox of progress" (educational) in Latin America. Three papers address the intergenerational transmission of inequality, two of which focus on Europe and one which considers a wide variety of countries. The final two papers explore inequality (mis) perceptions and the influence of the political structure on stated inequality preferences.

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