With contributions from John Goldthorpe, James J. Heckman,
Anthony B. Atkinson, Andrew Abbott, Robert D. Mare, and others, Mobility and
Inequality presents conceptual and empirical analyses of social and economic
mobility in industrialized societies, focusing in particular on models of
change over time and the role that educational institutions play in
constraining and enabling mobility opportunities. More than other compilations
of mobility research that have published since the 1950s, Mobility and
Inequality draws contributions from both sociology and economics and gives
substantial explicit attention to the effects of inequality on mobility
outcomes. This overarching theme is timely, given that labor market inequality
in many industrialized societies has increased in the past thirty years.
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With contributions from Amartya Sen, Martha C. Nussbaum,
François Bourguignon, William J. Wilson, Douglas S. Massey, and Martha A.
Fineman, Poverty and Inequality takes stock of current analytic understandings
of poverty and inequality. Contemporary research on inequality has largely
relied on conceptual advances several decades old, even though the basic
structure of global inequality is changing in fundamental ways. The reliance on
conventional poverty indices, rights-based approaches to poverty reduction, and
traditional modeling of social mobility has left scholars and policymakers
poorly equipped to address modern challenges.
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The Declining Significance of Gender
From editors Francine Blau, Mary Brinton, and David Grusky, this book examines the economic, organizational, political, and cultural forces that have changed the status of women and men in the labor market. The contributors examine the economic assumption that discrimination in hiring is economically inefficient and will be weeded out eventually by market competition. They explore the effect that family-organizational policies have had in drawing women into the workplace and giving them even footing in the organizational hierarchy. Several chapters ask whether political interventions might reduce or increase gender inequality, and others discuss whether a social ethos favoring egalitarianism is working to overcome generations of discriminatory treatment against women.