[Last updated 10/18/2007 12:09 PM]
Social Stratification and Inequality
Part 2: Survey of Selected Recent Research
Class dates.
The number refers to the date, the letter
refers to the class material (see below, not the same as the “topic category”)
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**No class, I will be out of the country.
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Note
** indicates an article to read for class
% indicates an article that should be on the comp
reading list
^ I will discuss this article in lecture
Articles on this list that we are not reading in class
are for reference and/or lecture
Clicking on the topic heading will link to a larger
topic bibliography (coming soon. Notes
are clipped from the article text)
This is not intended to be a comprehensive literature
review, but a frequently updated list of recent relevant and interesting
articles by topic.
The citation for articles without full bibliographic
reference can be found easily on Google with the information provided.
For class, I do not expect you to read more than 120
pages per class period (i.e., the equivalent of reading a book a week for a
weekly seminar. If the assigned reading
is more than 120 pages, skim appropriately, guided by the discussion questions and
your own interests). The literature
listed as “reference” is optional.
A. Overview and trends in inequality
%**Neckerman and Torche 2007
(pages 1-4 for class)
%**Piketty T, Saez E. 2003.
Income inequality in the United States: 1913–1998. Q. J. Econ. 118:1–39
**Reply
to Reynolds by Piketty and Saez
Reference:
(A) Trends
^%Goldin
and Margo 1992, The Great Compression: The Wage
Structure of the
Reynolds, “Income
Distribution Heresies”
(A.1) Recent Overviews
%Morris M,Western B. 1999. Inequality in earnings at the close of the twentieth century.
Annu.Rev. Sociol.
25:623–57
Myles, J. (2003).
Where have all the sociologists gone? Explaining income
inequality. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 28, 553-560
Ryscavage, P. (1999). Income inequality in America.
%Kenworthy L. 2007. Inequality and sociology. Am. Behav. Sci. 50:584–602
%DiPrete
TA. 2007b. What
has sociology to contribute to the study of inequality trends? A historical and comparative perspective. Am. Behav. Sci. 50:603–18
(A.2) Explanations of
the rise in inequality
^Lemieux
T. 2006. Increasing residual wage inequality: composition effects, noisy data,
or rising demand for skill? Am. Econ. Rev. 96:461–98
^Lee D. 1999.Wage
inequality in the
^Card D, DiNardo J. 2002. Skill-biased technological change and
rising wage inequality: some problems and puzzles. J. Labor Econ. 20:733–83
^Card, D., Lemieux, T., & Riddell, W. C. (2003). Unionization
and wage inequality: A comparative study of the
^Autor
DH, Katz L,
^Autor
DH, Katz L,
^Fernandez R. 2001.
Skill-biased technological change and wage inequality: evidence from a plant
retooling. Am. J. Sociol. 107:273–320
Gottschalk P, Danziger S. 2005. Inequality of wage rates, earnings and
family income in the United States, 1975–2000. Rev. Income Wealth 51:231–54
Katz LF, Autor DH. 1999. Changes in the wage structure and earnings
inequality. In Handbook of Labor Economics, ed. O Ashenfelter, D Card, 3:1463–553.
Frank RH, Cook PJ.
1995. The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the
Rest of Us.
B. Poverty
**%Block, 2006. “The Compassion Gap in American Poverty Policy.” Contexts.
**%Sommers and Block, 2005. “From Poverty to Perversity”. American Sociological
Review.
**%Hicks, 2006. “Comment
on Sommers and Block”. American Sociological Review
**%Esping-Anderson 2007. “Equal Opportunities and
the Welfare State.” Contexts.
**%Hoynes, Page, and Stevens, 2005. “Poverty in America”. Journal of Economic
Perspectives.
^%Smeeding,
2006 “Poor People in Rich Nations:
The
^Kenworthy, Epstein, and Duerr, 2007. “Rising
Tides, Redistribution, and the Material Well-Being of the Poor”
^ Moffit, 2003, Negative Income
Tax and the Evolution of
Reference:
^O’Neill, 2003.
“Gaining Ground, Moving Up: The Change in the Economic Status of Single
Mothers under Welfare Reform”
(C) Comparative evidence on trends/levels of
inequality (also see (M) globalization and inequality (A))
Bradley,
D., Huber, E., Moller, S., Nielsen, F., &
Stephens, J. (2003). Distribution
and redistribution in
postindustrial democracies. World Politics, 55,
193-228.
DiPrete, T. A. (2005). Labor markets, inequality, and change.
Work and Occupations, 32, 119-139.
Gustafsson, B., & Johansson, M. (1999). In search of smoking guns: What makes income
inequality vary over time in different countries? American Sociological
Review, 64, 585-605.
Gangl M. 2005. Income inequality, permanent income and
income dynamics: comparing Europe to the
Goesling B. 2001. Changing income
inequalities within and between nations: new evidence. Am. Sociol. Rev. 66:745–61
Jantti M, Bratsberg B, Roed K, Raaum O, Naylor R, et al.
2006. American exceptionalism in a new light: a
comparison of intergenerational earnings mobility in the Nordic countries, the
UK and the US. IZA Discuss. Pap. 1938, Inst. Study
Labor,
Smeeding T. 2005. Public policy, economic inequality, and
poverty: the United States in comparative perspective. Soc. Sci. Q. 86:955–83
Crime and inequality
Fajnzylber P, Lederman D, Loayza N. 2002. Inequality and violent
crime. J. Law Econ. 45:1–40
[No class
Oct 30 or Nov. 1]
(D) Working Poverty and (E) intragenerational
mobility
Applebaum, Low Wage
Gottshalk, 1999 work as a stepping stone
Acs, on the bottom rung
Bernstein and Hartman, 2000. The Low Wage
Labor Market
Carrington and Fallick. 2001. “Do Some Workers Have Minimum Wage Careers?”
Reference:
Corcoran,
M. (1995). Rags to rags: Poverty
and mobility in the
E.2 Earnings instability
Moffit R, Gottschalk P. 2002.Trends in the transitory
variance of earnings in the
(F) Inequality and Fairness
Osberg L, Smeeding T. 2006. Fair inequality? Attitudes toward pay differentials: the
Kenworthy 2007, is equality feasible
Welch, in defense of inequality
Jencks C. 2002. Does
inequality matter? Daedalus 131:49–65
Ref:
Kenworthy L. 2004.
Egalitarian Capitalism.
(F.2) Egalitarianism and Utopian Communities
Abramitzky, Kibbutz
Berliner
Leviatan, 2003
6. (H) Happiness
and relative position
Graham C, Felton A.
2005. Does inequality matter to individual welfare? An initial exploration based
on happiness surveys from Latin America. Cent.
Soc. Econ. Dyn. Work. Pap.
No. 38.
Hout M. 2003. Money and morale: what growing inequality
is doing to Americans’ views of themselves and others.Work. Pap., Survey Res. Cent.,
Firebaugh
Reference:
Frank, Robert.
Choosing the Right Pond
7. (I) Mobility
Corak M. 2006. Do poor children become poor adults? Lessons from a cross-country comparison of generational earnings
mobility. Res. Econ. Inequal. 13:143–88
Hout, 2005, “What have we Learned”
Mazumder 2001, 2003
Hertz 2007, 2006
Levine and Mazumder 2006 The Growing Importance of Family
Ref: Breen 2007
Lee CI, Solon G. 2006.
Trends in intergenerational income mobility. NBER Work. Pap. 12007. Natl. Bur.
Econ. Res.
Bernhardt
A, Morris M, Handcock MS, Scott MA. 2001. Divergent Paths: Economic Mobility in the
New American Labor Market.
Aaronson D, Mazumder B. 2005. Intergenerational
economic mobility in the
Pap. 2005–12. Fed.
Reserve Bank
Bjorklund A, Jantti M. 2000. Intergenerational mobility of socio-economic status in comparative perspective.
Nordic J. Polit. Econ.
26:3–32
Bowles
S, Gintis H, Osborne Groves M, eds. 2005. Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic
Success.
DiPrete TA, Eirich GM. 2006.
Cumulative advantage as a mechanism for inequality: a review of theoretical and
empirical developments. Annu. Rev. Sociol. 32:271–97
Erikson R, Goldthorpe J. 1992. The
Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies.
Jencks C, Tach L. 2006. Would equal opportunity mean more mobility?
In Mobility and Inequality, ed. SL Morgan, DB Grusky,
GS Fields, pp. 23–58.
Levine D, Mazumder B. 2002. Choosing the right
parents: changes in the intergenerational transmission of inequality between
1980 and the early 1990s.Work. Pap. 02–08. Fed. Reserve Bank
Solon G. 2002. Cross-country differences in intergenerational earnings mobility.
J. Econ. Perspect 16:59–66
Sorensen A. 2006. Welfare states, family inequality, and equality of opportunity.
Res. Stratif. Mobil. 24:367–75
(I.2) Meritocracy and the nature-nurture debate
Breen, 2001
Inequality by Design
(J) Social Classes,
Class Culture etc.
Weeden, 2005. “The case for
a new class map”
Wright,
2004. “Neo-Marxist Class Analysis”
8. (K) Gender Inequality
Mandel
Hammermesh, Beauty and the Labor Market
Blau, F. D., & Kahn, L. M. (2000). Gender differences in pay. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 14(4), 75-99.
Cohen and Huffman, Occupational Segregation and the Devaluation of Women’s Work across U.S. Labor Markets. Social Forces, March 2003, 81(3):881-907
Conley and Glauber, 200x,
“Gender, Body Mass, and Socioeconomic Status”
9. (L) Race-Ethnic
Inequality
Tyson
Gans, race as class
Hertz T. 2005. Rags,
riches and race: the intergenerational economic mobility of black and
white families in the
O’Neill
Conley and Glauber (to read)
L.2 Immigration and Hispanic Inequality (see
demography 2 syllabus)
L.3 The Effect of Immigration on Wages (see demography
2 syllabus)
Reference:
Quillian, 2006, “New approaches to studying racial prejudice”
10. (M) Globalization
and inequality
Harrison and Mcmillan 2007
“On the Links between Globalization and Poverty”
Alderson,
A. S., & Nielsen, F. (2002).
Globalization and the Great U-Turn: Income inequality trends in
16
OECD countries. American
Journal of Sociology, 107, 1244-1299.
Milanovic B. 2005. Worlds Apart.
Measuring Global and International Inequality.
Ref:
Bourguignon F, Morrisson C. 2002. Inequality among world citizens:
1820–1992. Am. Econ.Rev. 92:727–44
Dollar
D, Kraay A. 2002. Growth is good for the poor. J. Econ. Growth 7:195–25
Firebaugh G. 1999. Empirics of world inequality. Am. J. Sociol.
104:1597–630
Firebaugh G. 2003. The New Geography of Global Income Inequality.
Firebaugh G. 2004.
Does industrialization no longer benefit poor countries? A
comment on Arrighi, Silver and Brewer, 2003. Stud.
Comp. Int. Dev. 39:99–105
Firebaugh G, Goesling B. 2004. Accounting for the
recent decline in global income inequality. Am. J. Sociol. 110:283–312
Lindert P, Williamson J. 2001. Does globalization make the
world more unequal? NBER Work. Pap.
8228, Natl. Bur. Econ. Res.
Sutcliffe R. 2003. A more or less equal world? World
income distribution in the twentieth century.
Work. Pap. 54. Polit. Econ. Res. Inst. Univ. Mass.-Amherst
Wade R. 2004. Is
globalization reducing poverty and inequality? World Dev. 32:567–89
Sala-i-Martin X. 2002.
The disturbing ‘rise’ of global inequality. NBER Work. Pap. 8904,
Natl. Bur. Econ. Res.