1 - What's behind the increase in inequality? an introduction - Peter Gottschalk, Bjorn Gustafsson and Edward Palmer 2 - Policy changes and growing earnings inequality in the US and six other OECD countries - Peter Gottschalk 3 - A survey of income inequality over the last twenty years: how does the UK compare? - Karen Gardiner 4 - Economic adjustment and distributional change: income inequality and poverty in Australia in the 1980s - Peter Saunders 5 - Unemployment, unemployment insurance and the distribution of income in Canada in the 1980s - Lars Osberg, Sadettin Erksoy and Shelley Phipps 6 - Distribution of economic well-being in Japan: towards a more unequal society - Toshiaki Tachibanaki and Tadashi Yagi 7 - Income inequality and poverty under transition from rapid inflation to stabilisation: Israel 1979-1990 - Lea Achdut 8 - Changes in inequality in Greece in the 1970s and the 1980s - Panos Tsakloglou 9 - The development of income distribution in the Federal Republic of Germany during the 1970s and 1980s - Richard hauser and Irene Becker 10 - Income inequality and poverty in Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s - Tim Callan and Brian Nolan 11 - Income distribution in France: the mid 1980s turning point - Pierre Concialdi 12 - The distribution of economic well-being in the Netherlands, its evolution in the 1980s and the role of demographic change - Ruud Muffels and Jan Nelissen 13 - Changes in Swedish inequality: a sutdy of equivalent income, 1975-1991 - Bjorn Gustafsson and Edward Palmer 14 - Income inequality and poverty in Finland in the 1980s - Markus Jantti and Veli-Matti Ritakallio 15 - Disparities in the economic well-being of hungrarian society from the late 1970s to the 1980s - Odon Elteto 16 - The emergence of the labour market and earnings distribution: the case of the Czech Republic - Jiri Vecernik