A Research Agenda for Skills and Inequality

Edited by Michael Tåhlin, Professor of Sociology, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University, Sweden

Contents:

1 Skills and inequality – Introduction and overview 1
Michael Tåhlin
2 Skills, class and gender 19
Charlotta Magnusson and Michael Tåhlin
3 Culture, skills, job tasks and inequality 37
George Farkas
4 Skills and structural change 51
Johan Westerman and Edvin Syk
5 Skills and occupational sex segregation in Europe 65
Amanda Almstedt Valldor and Karin Halldén
6 Skills and adult educational choice: Gender (in)
equality in a new form of Swedish vocational education 85
Margarita Chudnovskaya, Erik Nylander, and Rebecca Ye
7 Occupational skills and subjective social status 103
Anton B. Andersson and Arvid Lindh
8 Skill and job quality: Polarisation in a ‘liberal’ economy? 121
Duncan Gallie
9 Occupational skills, ethnic stratification, and labor
market assimilation across immigrant generations 145
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 161
Mark Levels and Rolf van der Velden
11 Reconceptualizing human capital 177
Paula England and Nancy Folbre
12 Parental education–occupation matching and
offspring earnings 195
Dirk Witteveen
13 Skill and power at work: A Relational Inequality
perspective 215
Dustin Avent-Holt and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
14 The meaning of job-required education 231
Michael J. Handel
12 Skills and educational systems 255
Heike Solga and Herman G. van de Werfhorst
16 Skills and collective wage bargaining 271
Christian Kjellström and Irene Wennemo
17 Skills and macro-level economic inequality 287
Tomas Korpi, Michael Tåhlin and Johan Westerman
18 Skilled work and ethics: How can we expand
opportunities for meaningful work? 303
Andrea Veltman
Index 317