Emphasizes unsolved issues and developments within class and stratification analysis, discussing both theoretical and methodological innovations and revisions. In this book, comparative analysis has also revealed cross-national differentiation in stratification processes, partly related to welfare state arrangements and national policies.

List of Contributors. List of Reviewers. EDITORIAL BOARD. Introduction. Class, Occupation, Wages, and Skills: The Iron Law of Labor Market Inequality. Educational Choices and Social Interactions: A Formal Model and a Computational Test. Occupational Standing and Occupational Stratification by Cognitive Ability. Analysing Intergenerational Transmissions: From Social Mobility to Social Reproduction. Inching up: The Labour Market Position of the Second-Generation Immigrants in Britain and the United States (1990–2000). Lifestyles and Social Stratification: An Explorative Study of France and Norway. From Abstract to Concrete: The Practical Relevance of Parents’ Economic and Cultural Capital for Persistence in Higher Education. Completion of Upper Secondary Education: What Mechanisms are at Stake?. Identifying and Explaining Hidden Disadvantage within the Non-Manual Group in Higher Education Access. Measuring Social Inequality In Educational Attainment. Reproduction of Economic Inequalities: Are the Figures for the United States and United Kingdom Too High?. The International Standard Classification of Education 2011. Class and Stratification Analysis. Comparative social research. Comparative social research. Copyright page.