Seymour Spilerman
Affiliations
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Sociology
Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health - Organizer, Wealth and Inequality Seminar Series
- Co-Director, Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality
Research
Seymour Spilerman is the Julian C. Levi Professor of Social Sciences and Director of the Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality. His research has examined the structure of work careers in corporate settings, focusing on the ways that educational attainment, labor market experience, race and gender influence work career features. Spilerman is also involved in cross-national research on issues of income and wealth inequality, financial gerontology, and intergenerational transfers of resources.
Selected Work
- Â"Parental Wealth Effects on Living Standards and Asset Holdings: Results from Chile.Â" (with Florencia Torche). In Ed Wolff (ed.) International Perspectives on Household Wealth. Elgar. 2005. Forthcoming.
- Â"Quantitative Formulations in Sociology.Â" (with Emanuele Gurratana). Chapter 4 in Andrew Gelman (ed.), Qualitative Models and Methods: A Tour of the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2005.
- "Young Couples in Israel: The Impact of Parental Wealth on Early Living Standards." American Journal of Sociology 110(1) July, 2004. Pp. 92-122.
- "Living Standard Potential and the Transmission of Advantage in Chile." (with Florencia Torche). In Edward N. Wolff (ed.) What has Happened to the Quality of Life in the Advanced Industrial Countries. Elgar. 2004. Pp. 214-253.
- "Israeli Attitudes about Intervivos Transfers" (with Yuval Elmelech). In V.L. Bengtson and A. Lowenstein (eds.) Global Aging and Challenges to Families. Hawthorne, N.Y.: Aldine. 2003. Pp. 175-195.
- "Models of Career Progression in Japanese and U.S. Organizations." (with Hiroshi Ishida and Kuo-Hsien Su). 2002. European Sociological Review 18 (2). Pp. 179-98.
- "Organizational Structure, Determinants of Promotion, and Gender Differences in Attainment" (with Trond Petersen). Social Science Research (28) 1999. Pp. 203-227.
- Â"Do Parents Help More their Less Well Off Children? Evidence from a Sample of Migrants to France.Â" (with Francois-Charles Wolff and Claudine Attias-Donfut). Submitted to Review of Income and Wealth.
See Also
- Research grants undertaken by Seymour Spilerman
- Seed grant: Parental Wealth and Transition to Adulthood
- Working papers by Seymour Spilerman
