New book: Education and Inequality Across Europe
Erling Barth has coedited the anthology Education and Inequality Across Europe, recently published by Edward Elgar Publishing.
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. Among the topics discussed are 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 book is edited by Erling Barth, along with Peter Dolton (Professor of Economics in Royal Halloway College at the University of Lodon and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics) and Rita Asplund (Research Director at The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, ETLA).
- 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 policymakers with new insights into the dynamics of economic well-being, says Eric Hanushek, Stanford University.
In the chapter which Barth has contributed with, he examines the effect of expanding tertiary education on wage inequalities within groups of employees. The analysis suggests that expanding tertiary education does not produce large inequalities within groups. - Even at the lower end of the wage distribution of the tertiary educated the expansion has been met by a corresponding willingness to pay from the employers' side, writes Barth.
Read more:
Dolton, Asplund & Barth (eds.). Education and Inequality Across Europe.
Barth, Erling: Within-group Wage Inequality and the Expansion of Tertiary Education