Social class in Europe An introduction to the European socio-economic classification

This timely volume introduces a new social class schema, the European Socio-economic Classification (ESeC), which has been specifically developed and tested for use in EU comparative research. Social Class in Europe aims to introduce researchers to the new classification and its research potential....

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Hlavní autoři:	Rose, David, Harrison, Eric, Pevalin, David, Davies, Rhys, Elias, Peter, Bihagen, Eric, Nermo, Magnus, Erikson, Robert, Wirth, Heike, Gresch, Cornelia, Müller, Walter, Pollak, Reinhard, Weiss, Felix, Bauer, Gerrit, Brousse, Cecile, Monso, Olivier, Wolff, Loup, Watson, Dorothy, Whelan, Christopher T, Maitre, Bertrand, Kunst, Anton E, Roskam, Albert-Jan, Lucchini, Mario, Schizzerotto, Antonio, Barone, Carlo, Barone, Roberta
Médium:	E-kniha Kniha
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	London Routledge 2009 Taylor and Francis Taylor & Francis Group
Vydání:	1
Edice:	Routledge European Sociological Association studies in European societies
Témata:	1984-2005 Arbeitsbeziehung Arbeitsmarktrisiko Armut Berufliche Mobilität Berufliche Stellung Beruflicher Status Berufsklassifikation Bildung Bildungschance Chancengleichheit Class Classification Economic conditions Empirische Sozialforschung EU-Staaten Europe Europeans Europeans > Economic conditions > Classification Europeans > Social conditions > Classification Europäische Union Europäisches Haushaltspanel Gesundheitszustand Institution Internationaler Vergleich Klassifikation Lohnentwicklung Messung Methode Political Economy Research Methods - Soc. Policy Social Class Social classes Social classes > Europe > Classification Social conditions Social stratification Social stratification > Europe > Classification Socioeconomic status Soziale Klasse Soziale Mobilität Soziale Schicht Soziale Ungleichheit Sozialer Abstieg Sozialer Status Sozialstatistik Sozialstruktur Sozioökonomischer Faktor Validität EGP Schema socio-economic Vice Versa ECHP Data Persistent Deprivation AWG Clustering Occupations Long Term Rewards Dominance Rules specificity Consistent Poverty human Household Reference Person EGP Class Schema esec OLS Regression Automatic Classification Techniques european lower UK Labour Force Survey Human Asset Specificity Wage Growth employment classification National Occupational Classification Supervisory Status ISCO Code BIC Statistic EGP Class ESeC Class SRS Score Te Ch asset relations
ISBN:	9780415458016, 0415458013, 9780415534239, 0415534232
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The role of education and current income -- Class assignment at household level -- Summary and evaluation of results -- Further research -- 11 Unemployment risks in four EU countries: a validation study of the ESeC -- Introduction and aims -- Data, methods and variables -- Results -- Conclusions -- 12 Class of origin and educational inequalities in contemporary Italy: a validation analysis of the ESeC -- Introduction -- Class inequalities in the Italian educational system -- Data and methods -- The analysis of educational transitions with ESeC -- Log-linear analyses of trends over time in class inequality of educational opportunity -- A comparison between ESeC and EGP -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix A: Remarks on the allocation of employers between ESeC classes 1 and 4 -- Appendix B: Descriptive tables on the relationship between parental ESeC class and educational outcomes -- PART IV Conclusions -- 13 ESeC in retrospect and prospect: an epilogue -- Introduction -- Retrospect -- Prospect -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: Proposed ESeC SEGs -- Appendix B: Some comments on (1) the Ganzeboom and (2) the Leiulfsrud and Bison operationalizations of EGP -- Bibliography -- Author index -- Subject index
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- PART I Introducing the ESeC -- 1 The European Socio-economic Classification: a prolegomenon -- Introduction -- What is a 'socio-economic classification'? -- Why is an ESeC needed? -- The importance of conceptual approaches -- The ESeC classes explained -- The ESeC classes described -- The validation of ESeC -- The contributions to this book -- Conclusions -- 2 From derivation to validation: evidence from the UK and beyond -- From EGP to NS-SEC to ESeC -- Measuring occupation cross-nationally using ISCO -- Refining the classification: from eight to ten classes -- ESeC in conditions of incomplete information -- Validating the schema in part and whole -- Summary -- Appendix: UK-LFS questions for validation of NS-SEC -- 3 The application of ESeC to three sources of comparative European data -- Introduction -- Information requirements -- Description of data sources -- Constructing ESeC: the derivation of employment status -- Occupational composition -- ESeC distributions -- Allocating the non-employed to ESeC -- Deriving a household ESeC -- Concluding comments -- PART II Measuring social class -- 4 Social class and employment relations: comparisons between the ESeC and EGP class schemas using European data -- Introduction -- Class and employment relationships -- Data and variables -- Results -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix A: ESS data: reductions of the sample size -- Appendix B: Country-level analyses -- 5 Measuring social class: the case of Germany -- Introduction -- The construction of the German national ESeC -- The operationalization of the various versions of ESeC with the BIBB/IAB database -- The employment relations (ER) indicators
Differences in OUG composition and class distribution between the German and the international variants of the ESeC classification -- Criterion validity of the different ESeC versions -- Discussion -- 6 The comparative measurement of supervisory status -- Introduction -- Measures of supervisory status and characteristics of supervisors identified -- Operationalization of supervisory status in the ESS and LFS -- Discussion -- 7 Stable and consistent with the employment relations theoretical background? Does the prototype ESeC show these qualities with French data? -- Introduction -- Using automatic classification techniques to test prototype ESeC -- Occupational mobility measured with prototype ESeC and an empirical classification: how much mobility does ESeC create? -- Changes in supervisory functions since the 1980s: towards a trend in the growth of blurring in the ESeC prototype? -- Appendix: The prototype ESeC and empirical classifications of wage earners -- PART III Using ESeC in comparative research on social class -- 8 The effectiveness of ESeC and EGP in clustering occupations: a study of occupational wage growth in Sweden -- Introduction -- Wage growth and class -- Measuring the wage growth of occupations -- Data and methods -- Results -- Discussion -- 9 Class and poverty: cross-sectional and dynamic analysis of income poverty and lifestyle deprivation -- Introduction -- Approach -- Methodology -- Variation in income and lifestyle deprivation by ESeC -- Risk of poverty and deprivation -- Persistent poverty, persistent deprivation and ESeC -- Cross-classifying forms of persistence -- Conclusions -- 10 Using the ESeC to describe socio-economic inequalities in health in Europe -- Introduction -- Expectations regarding the performance of the ESeC schema -- Materials -- Statistical analyses -- Class differences in health