TY - JOUR
T1 - Inequality Interactions
T2 - The Dynamics of Multidimensional Inequalities
AU - Segal, Paul
N1 - Funding Information:
The author would like to thank Ingrid Bleynat, Alice Evans, Aaron Reeves and Mike Savage for helpful comments and discussion, and the anonymous referees for their feedback. He gratefully acknowledges support from the Leverhulme Foundation through a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (grant number RF‐2016‐437).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. Development and Change published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Institute of Social Studies.
PY - 2022/9
Y1 - 2022/9
N2 - This article offers a multidimensional, interdisciplinary and dynamic framework for understanding socio-economic inequalities. It uses the tools of economic inequality measurement to demonstrate the link between interpersonal and categorical inequalities and to show the effect of progressive redistribution on both. It then presents two new concepts for analysing interactions between varieties of inequality: inequality re-ordering is defined as a reduction in categorical or group inequalities that leaves interpersonal inequality unchanged, and inequality diversion is defined as a reduction in one form of inequality that increases another form of inequality. The argument that inequality diversion arises across economic and social dimensions is illuminated through two case studies: the transition to increasing meritocracy, and the relationship between professional female labour market participation and domestic service. Exploring these relationships is essential to a joined-up approach to inequality reduction, enabling us to understand trade-offs and complementarities in tackling inequalities, and to identify policies required to reduce them.
AB - This article offers a multidimensional, interdisciplinary and dynamic framework for understanding socio-economic inequalities. It uses the tools of economic inequality measurement to demonstrate the link between interpersonal and categorical inequalities and to show the effect of progressive redistribution on both. It then presents two new concepts for analysing interactions between varieties of inequality: inequality re-ordering is defined as a reduction in categorical or group inequalities that leaves interpersonal inequality unchanged, and inequality diversion is defined as a reduction in one form of inequality that increases another form of inequality. The argument that inequality diversion arises across economic and social dimensions is illuminated through two case studies: the transition to increasing meritocracy, and the relationship between professional female labour market participation and domestic service. Exploring these relationships is essential to a joined-up approach to inequality reduction, enabling us to understand trade-offs and complementarities in tackling inequalities, and to identify policies required to reduce them.
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U2 - 10.1111/dech.12730
DO - 10.1111/dech.12730
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85136507363
SN - 0012-155X
VL - 53
SP - 941
EP - 961
JO - DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE
JF - DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE
IS - 5
ER -
