A research agenda for skills and inequality /

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A research agenda for skills and inequality / / edited by Michael Tåhlin [and four others].

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...

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Superior document:Elgar Research Agendas Series
TeilnehmendeR:
Tåhlin, Michael,
Edward Elgar Publishing,
Place / Publishing House:Cheltenham, UK : : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited,, 2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Elgar Research Agendas Series
Physical Description:1 online resource (348 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents: 1. Skills and inequality - Introduction and overview / Michael Tåhlin
  • 2. Skills, class and gender / Charlotta Magnusson and Michael Tåhlin
  • 3. Culture, skills, job tasks and inequality / George Farkas
  • 4. Skills and structural change / Johan Westerman and Edvin Syk
  • 5. Skills and occupational sex segregation in Europe / Amanda Almstedt Valldor and Karin Halldén
  • 6. Skills and adult educational choice: Gender (in) equality in a new form of Swedish vocational education / Margarita Chudnovskaya, Erik Nylander, and Rebecca Ye
  • 7. Occupational skills and subjective social status / Anton B. Andersson and Arvid Lindh
  • 8. Skill and job quality: Polarisation in a 'liberal' economy? / Duncan Gallie
  • 9. Occupational skills, ethnic stratification, and labor market assimilation across immigrant generations / Are Skeie Hermansen, Jon Horgen Friberg, and Arnfinn H. Midtbøen
  • 10. 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
  • 11. Reconceptualizing human capital / Paula England and Nancy Folbre
  • 12. Parental education-occupation matching and offspring earnings / Dirk Witteveen
  • 13. Skill and power at work: A relational inequality perspective / Dustin Avent-Holt and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
  • 14. The meaning of job-required education / Michael J. Handel
  • 15. Skills and educational systems / Heike Solga and Herman G. van de Werfhorst
  • 16. Skills and collective wage bargaining / Christian Kjellström and Irene Wennemo
  • 17. Skills and macro-level economic inequality / Tomas Korpi, Michael Tåhlin and Johan Westerman
  • 18. Skilled work and ethics: How can we expand opportunities for meaningful work? / Andrea Veltman
  • Index.

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