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Occupational Social Class and Earnings Inequality in Europe::A Comparative Assessment
- Source :
- Goedemé, T, Nolan, B, Paskov, M & Weisstanner, D 2022, ' Occupational Social Class and Earnings Inequality in Europe: A Comparative Assessment ', Social Indicators Research, vol. 159, no. 1, pp. 215-233 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-021-02746-z, Social Indicators Research, Social indicators research: an international and interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- While there is renewed interest in earnings differentials between social classes, the contribution of social class to overall earnings inequality across countries and net of compositional effects remains largely uncharted territory. This paper uses data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions to assess earnings differentials between social classes (as measured by ESeC) and the role of between-class inequality in overall earnings inequality across 30 European countries. We find that there is substantial variation in earnings differences between social classes across countries. Countries with higher levels of between-class inequality tend to display higher levels of overall earnings inequality, but this relationship is far from perfect. Even with highly aggregated class measures, between-class inequality accounts for a non-negligible share of total earnings inequality (between 15 and 25% in most countries). Controlling for observed between-class differences in composition shows that these account for much of the observed between-class earnings inequality, while in most countries between-class differences in returns to observed compositional variables do not play a major role. In all these respects we find considerable variation across countries, implying that both the size of between-class differences in earnings and the primary mechanisms that produce these class differences vary substantially between European countries.
- Subjects :
- inequality
Sociology and Political Science
Economics
Ungleichheit
Sociology & anthropology
0504 sociology
Sociology
Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
Human geography
Einkommenspolitik, Lohnpolitik, Tarifpolitik, Vermögenspolitik
050602 political science & public administration
Developmental and Educational Psychology
media_common
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
social inequality
BRITAIN
SPS Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice
05 social sciences
General Social Sciences
Decomposition of mean log deviation
European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC)
0506 political science
Europe
Variation (linguistics)
income
Earnings
Counterfactual inequality
ddc:300
ddc:301
Einkommensunterschied
Europa
Income Policy, Property Policy, Wage Policy
050402 sociology
Inequality
media_common.quotation_subject
SOCIOECONOMIC CLASSIFICATION
UNITED-STATES
Social class
soziale Ungleichheit
Earnings inequality
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
STRATIFICATION
SPS Children and Families Research Centre
media_common.cataloged_instance
difference in income
General Sociology, Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Sociology, Sociological Theories
European union
Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
INCOME INEQUALITY
ECONOMIC-INEQUALITY
DIFFERENCE
EU-SILC
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Class differences
Cross-national variation
Demographic economics
soziale Klasse
Einkommen
social class
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03038300
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Goedemé, T, Nolan, B, Paskov, M & Weisstanner, D 2022, ' Occupational Social Class and Earnings Inequality in Europe: A Comparative Assessment ', Social Indicators Research, vol. 159, no. 1, pp. 215-233 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-021-02746-z, Social Indicators Research, Social indicators research: an international and interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4fd3ff0cf0c0479ac0d393fa76667d9f