"The social structure of european inequality: a multidimensional perspective", Rosário Mauritti, Susana da Cruz Martins, Nuno Nunes, Ana Lúcia Romão, António Firmino da Costa

Abstract: The aim of this article is to present some contributions to the understanding of social inequality in Europe today. We analyse the distributional inequalities of economic and educational resources as well as the categorical inequalities between nation states and between social classes. The source of the empirical data was the European Social Survey 2012. We…

"Robin Hood versus Piggy Bank: Income redistribution in Portugal 2006-10", de Carlos Farinha Rodrigues e Isabel Andrade

Summary: The redistributive effect of the Portuguese welfare state through pensions, benefits and taxes is investigated in detail over the  2006-10 period using disposable income as benchmark. All social and fiscal policy instruments analysed contribute significantly to the reduction in inequality and poverty, with benefits other than pensions being the most cost-efficient. However, the impact…

"Class and social capital in europe. A transnational analysis of the European Social Survey", de Renato Miguel do Carmo e Nuno Nunes

Abstract: This paper seeks to understand the way in which social capital resources are incorporated, appropriated and distributed by different social classes in Europe. Its main goal is to produce a conceptual framework by linking the concepts of social capital with the different theoretical assessments made by the sociology of social classes. We use multivariate…