Ethnic and racial discrimination in employment
This presentation on ethnic and racial discrimination in employment by Javier Polavieja, is the fifth session of the 2021-2022 DigClass seminar series.
Publications and Events
Social classes in economics analysis. A brief historical account
The purpose of this working paper, the first of a series of three aiming at studying social classes from an economic perspective, is to review the role played by social classes in economic analysis. With that aim, we will first …
Kick-off Workshop: Social Classes in the Digital Age
This document is the report of the Kick-off Workshop of the Social Classes in the Digital Age (DigClass) project held on the 21-22 of September 2021.
Rising income inequality and polarisation
This presentation on rising income inequality and polarisation by Markus Gangl, is the fourth session of the 2021-2022 DigClass seminar series.
Contemporary Class Analysis
A popular thesis in social stratification argues that the middle class is declining. Our chapter argues that this thesis is flawed both conceptually and empirically. Conceptually, it mixes up the middle and working class and, …
Genotyping technologies and social inequality
This presentation on genotyping technologies and social inequality by Kathryn Paige Harden, is the third session of the 2021-2022 DigClass seminar series.
Intergenerational mobility and vote
This presentation on intergenerational social mobility and vote by Macarena Ares, is the second session of the 2021-2022 DigClass seminar series.
The measurement of socioeconomic position
This presentation on the measurement of socioeconomic position by Carlo Barone, Carlo Barone and Oscar Smallenbroekis, is the first session of the 2021-2022 DigClass seminar series.
The Kick-off Workshop of the Social Classes in the Digital Age Project (DigClass)
The kick-off workshop brought together 13 high-profile international experts on social inequality from different social science disciplines to discuss technological change and inequality, two topics directly under the European Commission’s priorities.