Introduction / John A. Bishop, Rafael Salas -- ch. 1. Measuring segregation : basic concepts and extensions to other domains / Jacques Silber -- ch. 2. Occupational segregation measures : a role for status / Coral del Río, Olga Alonso-Villar -- ch. 3. Occupational segregation of Afro-Latinos / Carlos Gradín -- ch. 4. Multigroup segregation patterns and determinants : the case of immigrants in an Italian city / Francesco Andreoli -- ch. 5. Equal-equivalents for inequality, welfare, and liberty : concepts and policy / Serge Kolm -- ch. 6. Influence functions for policy impact analysis / B. Essama-Nssah, Peter J. Lambert -- ch. 7. A note on multidimensional distribution-sensitive poverty axioms / Ma Casilda Lasso de la Vega, Ana Urrutia -- ch. 8. Convergence club empirics : evidence from Indian states / Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay -- ch. 9. The EU-wide earnings distribution / Andrea Brandolini, Alfonso Rosolia, Roberto Torrini -- ch. 10. Earnings mobility, earnings inequality, and labor market institutions in Europe / Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue -- ch. 11. Intergenerational educational mobility and social exclusion : Germany and the United States compared / Veronika V. Eberharter -- ch. 12. Variable equivalence scales and trends in German income inequality / Jürgen Faik -- ch. 13. Educational inequality in the world, 1950-2010 : estimates from a new dataset / Wail Benaabdelaali, Saîd Hanchane, Abdelhak Kamal -- ch. 14. Understanding the drivers of low-income transitions in Luxembourg / Alessio Fusco, Nizamul Islam -- ch. 15. Welfare reform and poverty : a latent trajectory model analysis / Michael J. Camasso, Radha Jagannathan.

This volume honors the lifetime and continuing contributions of Professor Jacques Silber. The book contains 15 papers, which were presented at the Fourth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Catania, Sicily, July 2011. Theoretical topics covered in Volume 20 include measuring segregation, welfare and liberty, the use of influence functions in distributional analysis, and the axiomatic approach to multidimensional inequality. Empirical studies include occupational and residential segregation, regional convergence, impact of variable of equivalence scales on income inequality, earnings and educational inequality and mobility, poverty transitions, and welfare reform. These empirical studies examine a variety of countries and cultures: Afro-Latinos, Italian immigrants, and Indian states as well as the European Union and the United States.

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