Education and Inequality Across Europe

Edited by Peter Dolton, Department of Economics, University of Sussex, UK, Rita Asplund, Research Director, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA), Finland and Erling Barth, Research Director, Institute for Social Research, Oslo and Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway

• Contents:Foreword1. Education, Wage Inequality and the Labour MarketPeter Dolton, Rita Asplund and Erling Barth2. Education and Income Inequality: A Macroeconomic PerspectiveRita Asplund3. School Quality and Educational Outcomes in EuropeAndreas Ammermüller and Charlotte Lauer4. Overeducation Across EuropePeter Dolton and Oscar Marcenaro-Gutierrez5. Inequality in Access to and Finance of Tertiary EducationRita Asplund, Oussama Ben Abdelkarim and Ali Skalli6. Earnings Inequality in Europe: Structure and Patterns of Intertemporal ChangesIoannis Cholezas and Panos Tsakloglou7. Education and Wage Dispersion: New Evidence for EuropeSantiago Budría and Pedro Telhado Pereira8. Within-group Wage Inequality and the Expansion of Tertiary EducationErling Barth9. Gender Wage Differentials in EuropePeter Dolton, Oscar Marcenaro-Gutierrez and Ali Skalli10. The Economic Effects of Demographic and Educational Change: Empirical Evidence and Policy ImplicationsClaudio Lucifora11. Intergenerational Income Mobility in a Comparative PerspectiveJo Blanden12. A Multi-country Study of Inter-generational Educational MobilityArnaud Chevalier, Kevin Denny and Dorren McMahon13. Education and Preferences for Income Redistribution in a Cross-Section of CountriesChristopher Crowe14. Job and Life Satisfaction Inequalities in EuropePeter Dolton, Joseph Lanfranchi and Ali SkalliIndex

'This is a valuable collection of 12 essays by a distinguished set of experts in the field of education and income inequality across Europe. . . Recommended to educators and policymakers wishing to know about recent significant research in the area of education and inequality in Europe. . . It is vital reading for policymakers and for academics and researchers who want to be aware of what is currently understood and what further work is needed to improve understanding.'