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Social Inequality Across the Generations provides an innovative
perspective on social stratification studies by advancing the
theoretical and empirical case for the influence of resource
compensation. It examines whether resource compensation is a
successful mechanism for social mobility, contrasting it against
competing types of resource accumulation such as multiplication.
So, this book is the first to extensively cover the role of
compensation in intergenerational attainment - a new and rapidly
spreading concept in stratification research. The editors bring
together research on different types of resources contributing to
social mobility from the nuclear family, extended family and
society, including in-depth analysis of the influence of wider
family members in three different contexts and specific empirical
chapters covering European and US societies. The authors cover a
variety of institutional systems that achieve similar results
through contrasting methods, and this conceptual framework reveals
which policies have the biggest effect on social mobility. The book
offers original insight into intergenerational inequality and
mobility for researchers and students of social stratification
research and social mobility, particularly within sociology, social
policy and economics. Contributors include: F. Bernardi, H.-P.
Blossfeld, D. Boertien, J. Erola, M. Gratz, J. Helemae, M. Kainu,
J. Kallio, O. Kangas, E. Kilpi-Jakonen, H. Lehti, A. Minello, J.
Palme, F.T. Pfeffer, I. Prix, H. Poeylioe, E. Saar, O.N. Wiborg
As industrial societies increasingly evolve into knowledge-based
economies, the importance of education as a lifelong process is
greater than ever. This comprehensive book provides a
state-of-the-art analysis of adult learning across the world and
within varying institutional contexts. The expert contributors
examine the structures of formal and non-formal adult learning in
different countries, and investigate the levels of success those
countries have experienced in encouraging participation and skill
formation. The book offers a cross-section of international
perspectives, with chapters focusing on Australia, the Czech
Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Great Britain,
Hungary, Italy, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the United States. Using
empirical, longitudinal data from each of these countries, the
contributors identify which types of learning are converted into
positive labor market outcomes and assess the potential of adult
learning for reducing social inequalities. This book will be of
great use to both academics and policymakers with an interest in
adult learning, sociology, education and inequality, and the
economics of work. Contributors: P. Barbieri, C. Barone, H.-P.
Blossfeld, S. Buchholz, S. Buchler, J. Chesters, G. Csanadi, A.
Csizmady, G. Cutuli, J. Dammrich, C. Elman, D. Hamplova, M. Haynes,
A. Higginson, E. Kilpi-Jakonen, Y. Kosyakova, M. Lugo, P.
Martikainen, P. McMullin, P. Miret-Gamundi, V. Myrup Jensen, E.
Reichart, P. Robert, E.-L. Roosmaa, E. Saar, S. Scherer, S.
Schuhrer, N. Simonova, O. Sirnioe, A. Stenberg, M. Triventi, J.
Unfried., M. Unt, D. Vono de Vilhena, S. Wahler, F. Weiss
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