A research agenda for skills and inequality /

"Skills and inequality have long been a central theme in analyses of social structure and economic development. A Research Agenda for Skills and Inequality offers an insightful cross-disciplinary framework for research on how unequal living conditions form, persist and change in interplay with...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Tåhlin, Michael (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2023.
Series:	Elgar research agendas.
Subjects:	Equality > Social aspects. Equality > Research > Handbooks, manuals, etc. Life skills. Vocational qualifications. Habiletés de base. Qualifications professionnelles. Equality > Research Equality > Social aspects Life skills Vocational qualifications Electronic books. Handbooks and manuals
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Skills and inequality : introduction and overview / Michael Tåhlin
Skills, class and gender / Charlotta Magnusson and Michael Tåhlin
Culture, skills, job tasks and inequality / George Farkas
Skills and structural change / Johan Westerman and Edvin Syk
Skills and occupational sex segregation in Europe / Amanda Almstedt Valldor and Karin Halldén
Skills and adult educational choice : gender (in) equality in a new form of Swedish vocational education / Margarita Chudnovskaya, Erik Nylander, and Rebecca Ye
Occupational skills and subjective social status / Anton B. Andersson and Arvid Lindh
Skill and job quality : polarisation in a 'liberal' economy? / Duncan Gallie
Occupational skills, ethnic stratification, and labor market assimilation across immigrant generations / Are Skeie Hermansen, Jon Horgen Friberg, and Arnfinn H. Midtbøen
Can work protect against age-related decline of cognitive skills? : an empirical test of the use-it-or-lose-it hypothesis / Mark Levels and Rolf van der Velden
Reconceptualizing human capital / Paula England and Nancy Folbre
Parental education-occupation matching and offspring earnings / Dirk Witteveen
Skill and power at work : a relational inequality perspective / Dustin Avent-Holt and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
The meaning of job-required education / Michael J. Handel
Skills and educational systems / Heike Solga and Herman G. van de Werfhorst
Skills and collective wage bargaining / Christian Kjellström and Irene Wennemo
Skills and macro-level economic inequality / Tomas Korpi, Michael Tåhlin and Johan Westerman
Skilled work and ethics : how can we expand opportunities for meaningful work? / Andrea Veltman.