"On the premise that high employment is essential to the realization of egalitarian goals in the contemporary era, this important book explores how social policies and institutional arrangements in advanced capitalist societies have affected employment growth over the last three decades. Kenworthy synthesizes existing literature and presents new empirical findings based on original cross-national data and measurements. His most important contribution is to explore multiple determinants of employment performance and interactions among these determinants in a systematic fashion. Very sensibly, the analysis yields policy recommendations that are specific to particular institutional contexts. For students of comparative political economy, the particular questions that Kenworthy addresses are now settled for some time to come."--Jonas Pontusson, Professor of Politics, Princeton University "This new book is a worthy successor to Lane Kenworthy's much acclaimed Egalitarian Capitalism. Combining academic rigor with a reader-friendly style, he explores how we might reconcile what many consider incompatible goals: more employment and greater equality. Drawing on systematic and empirically rich analyses, Kenworthy argues against any simplistic policy formula.

The book makes especially lucrative reading when, in the latter half, it identifies the key ingredients of a win-win strategy. Jobs with Equality is destined to generate debate all-the-while that it affirms Lane Kenworthy's status as a leading scholar of social inequality."--Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Professor of Sociology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra "Like all of Lane Kenworthy's work, this book is marked by clear writing, an explicit description of all empirical data and decisions, careful data analysis, and a systematic consideration of alternative explanations. This careful analysis and careful attention to solutions and recommendations make this book of use to any scholar or policymaker interested in income inequality and ways to reduce it." --Contemporary Sociology.