The relationship between education and income inequality is of fundamental
importance.
In this book, an international group of renowned contributors focus on patterns
of inequality and their relationship to education using recent data from European
countries. The fresh and unique research deals with important topics such as: wage and
education inequality, differences in earnings related to gender, the role of labour market
institutions, demographic and cohort effects on inequality, intergenerational education
and income mobility, the extent of ‘overeducation’ and job and life satisfaction
inequality.
The wealth of new empirical evidence presented will make this book an invaluable
resource for labour and education economists, educationalists, policy-makers and academics
interested in the distribution of income, inequality and education within the fields of
sociology and public policy.
The book presents an extensive review of research and fresh new evidence on a variety
of issues such as inequality in education, quality of education, inequality in educational
outcomes, funding tertiary education, the phenomenon of over-education, inequality in
incomes, gender differences in earnings, inter-generational income mobility and labour
market institutions in different countries. . . The book is a valuable study; the review
of research is useful; the wealth of new evidence is indeed impressive; the coverage of
issues is wide and extensive; the statistical analysis is of high quality; and the
discussion of the results is rich. The detailed empirical estimates, along with tables and
graphs add to the value of the book considerably. . . I am sure, many will find the book
very useful.’
– Jandhyala B.G. Tilak, Journal of Educational Planning and Administration
‘This volume represents a new chapter in understanding income inequality. The various
authors, drawn from across Europe, not only provide rich comparative views about the
extent of inequality but also go on to explain some of the causes. The composite picture
of the role of education that emerges provides both researchers and policy-makers with new
insights into the dynamics of economic well-being.
– Eric Hanushek, Stanford University, US
Edited by Peter Dolton, Professor of Economics, Royal Holloway
College, University of London and Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Performance,
London School of Economics, 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:
Foreword
1. Education, Wage Inequality and the Labour Market
Peter Dolton, Rita Asplund and Erling Barth
2. Education and Income Inequality: A Macroeconomic Perspective
Rita Asplund
3. School Quality and Educational Outcomes in Europe
Andreas Ammermüller and Charlotte Lauer
4. Overeducation Across Europe
Peter Dolton and Oscar Marcenaro-Gutierrez
5. Inequality in Access to and Finance of Tertiary Education
Rita Asplund, Oussama Ben Abdelkarim and Ali Skalli
6. Earnings Inequality in Europe: Structure and Patterns of Intertemporal Changes
Ioannis Cholezas and Panos Tsakloglou
7. Education and Wage Dispersion: New Evidence for Europe
Santiago Budría and Pedro Telhado Pereira
8. Within-group Wage Inequality and the Expansion of Tertiary Education
Erling Barth
9. Gender Wage Differentials in Europe
Peter Dolton, Oscar Marcenaro-Gutierrez and Ali Skalli
10. The Economic Effects of Demographic and Educational Change: Empirical Evidence
and Policy Implications
Claudio Lucifora
11. Intergenerational Income Mobility in a Comparative Perspective
Jo Blanden
12. A Multi-country Study of Inter-generational Educational Mobility
Arnaud Chevalier, Kevin Denny and Dorren McMahon
13. Education and Preferences for Income Redistribution in a Cross-Section of
Countries
Christopher Crowe
14. Job and Life Satisfaction Inequalities in Europe
Peter Dolton, Joseph Lanfranchi and Ali Skalli
Index
368 pages, Hardcover