A Research Agenda for Skills and Inequality

Edited by Michael Tåhlin

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Abstract: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. 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 human skill formation and development.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Education; Geography; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
ISBN: 9781800378452
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Skills and inequality - Introduction and overview , pp 1-17

Michael Tåhlin

Ch 2 Skills, class and gender , pp 19-36

Charlotta Magnusson and Michael Tåhlin

Ch 3 Culture, skills, job tasks and inequality , pp 37-50

George Farkas

Ch 4 Skills and structural change , pp 51-63

Johan Westerman and Edvin Syk

Ch 5 Skills and occupational sex segregation in Europe , pp 65-83

Amanda Almstedt Valldor and Karin Halldén

Ch 6 Skills and adult educational choice: Gender (in)equality in a new form of Swedish vocational education , pp 85-101

Margarita Chudnovskaya, Erik Nylander and Rebecca Ye

Ch 7 Occupational skills and subjective social status , pp 103-120

Anton B. Andersson and Arvid Lindh

Ch 8 Skill and job quality: Polarisation in a 'liberal' economy? , pp 121-143

Duncan Gallie

Ch 9 Occupational skills, ethnic stratification, and labor market assimilation across immigrant generations , pp 145-159

Are Skeie Hermansen, Jon Horgen Friberg and Arnfinn H. Midtbøen

Ch 10 Can work protect against age-related decline of cognitive skills?: An empirical test of the use-it-or-lose-it hypothesis , pp 161-176

Mark Levels and Rolf Van der Velden

Ch 11 Reconceptualizing human capital , pp 177-195

Paula England and Nancy Folbre

Ch 12 Parental education-occupation matching and offspring earnings , pp 197-215

Dirk Witteveen

Ch 13 Skill and power at work: A Relational Inequality perspective , pp 217-232

Dustin Avent-Holt and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey

Ch 14 The meaning of job-required education , pp 233-256

Michael Handel

Ch 15 Skills and educational systems , pp 257-272

Heike Solga and Herman G. van de Werfhorst

Ch 16 Skills and collective wage bargaining , pp 273-287

Christian Kjellström and Irene Wennemo

Ch 17 Skills and macro-level economic inequality , pp 289-304

Tomas Korpi, Michael Tåhlin and Johan Westerman

Ch 18 Skilled work and ethics: How can we expand opportunities for meaningful work? , pp 305-318

Andrea Veltman

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