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 1Michael Tåhlin2 Skills, class and gender 19Charlotta Magnusson and Michael Tåhlin3 Culture, skills, job tasks and inequality 37George Farkas4 Skills and structural change 51Johan Westerman and Edvin Syk5 Skills and occupational sex segregation in Europe 65Amanda Almstedt Valldor and Karin Halldén6 Skills and adult educational choice: Gender (in)equality in a new form of Swedish vocational education 85Margarita Chudnovskaya, Erik Nylander, and Rebecca Ye7 Occupational skills and subjective social status 103Anton B. Andersson and Arvid Lindh8 Skill and job quality: Polarisation in a ‘liberal’ economy? 121Duncan Gallie9 Occupational skills, ethnic stratification, and labormarket assimilation across immigrant generations 145Are Skeie Hermansen, Jon Horgen Friberg, andArnfinn H. Midtbøen10 Can work protect against age-related declineof cognitive skills?: An empirical test of theuse-it-or-lose-it hypothesis 161Mark Levels and Rolf van der Velden11 Reconceptualizing human capital 177Paula England and Nancy Folbre12 Parental education–occupation matching andoffspring earnings 195Dirk Witteveen13 Skill and power at work: A Relational Inequalityperspective 215Dustin Avent-Holt and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey14 The meaning of job-required education 231Michael J. Handel12 Skills and educational systems 255Heike Solga and Herman G. van de Werfhorst16 Skills and collective wage bargaining 271Christian Kjellström and Irene Wennemo17 Skills and macro-level economic inequality 287Tomas Korpi, Michael Tåhlin and Johan Westerman18 Skilled work and ethics: How can we expandopportunities for meaningful work? 303Andrea VeltmanIndex 317

‘In the quest to better understand the changing economic, technological, political, and educational circumstances of skills and inequalities, this volume offers much to consider. The book successfully brings together multiple perspectives and authors from various fields to expand the reader’s knowledge and thinking about the topic and, more broadly, about systems of education and employment. Those with backgrounds in economics, education, public policy, and sociology will not only find familiar perspectives but will likely be presented with approaches to ideas they may not have considered.’