Education, Occupation and Social Origin

Contents: 1. Introduction: Education as the Great Equalizer: A Theoretical FrameworkFabrizio Bernardi and Gabriele Ballarino 2. Inequality of Educational Returns in France. Changes in the Effect of Education and Social Background on Occupational CareersLouis-Andre Vallet, Camille Peugny and Milan Bouchet-Valat 3. Legacies of the Past: Social Origin, Educational Attainment and Labour-market Outcomes in GermanyMichael Gratz and Reinhard Pollack 4. Inequality in Educational Returns in Hungary Peter Robert and Tamas Keller 5. Changes in the Stratification Process in Israel, 1995-2008Yossi Shavit, Carmel Blank and Eyal Bar Haim 6. Social Background and Education in Occupational Attainment in ItalyGabriele Ballarino, Carlo Barone and Nazareno Panichella 7. Inequality in Educational Returns in JapanShin Arita and Yoshimichi Sato 8. Social Origin and Inequality in Educational Returns in the Dutch Labour MarketMaarten Wolbers and Jochen Tolsma 9. Direct Social Origin Effects and Educational Returns in NorwayArne Mastekaasa 10. The Effects of Parental Social Background on Labour Market Outcomes in RussiaAlexei Bessudnov 11. Is Education the Great Equalizer for the Chances of Social Mobility in Spain?Fabrizio Bernardi 12. The Direct and Indirect Effects of Social Background on Occupational Positions in Sweden: New Evidence on Old QuestionsJuho Harkonen and Erik Bihagen 13. Inequalities in Returns to Education in SwitzerlandFrancesco Lagana 14. Social Origin, Education and Socio-economic Inequalities: Trends in the United KingdomLeen Vandecasteele 15. Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage in the USFlorencia Torche 16. The Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality and Education in 14 Countries: A ComparisonGabriele Ballarino and Fabrizio Bernardi Index

Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Educational inequality · Inequality · Life chances · Population · Social class · Social inequality · Social mobility · Social science · Social stratification · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Status attainment · Demography · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Education · Educational equalization · Educational sociology · Social aspects