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inclusive approach for supporting students with additional needs and their parents is needed. … longitudinal study of children. The analysis takes account of a diversity of student and family characteristics as well as the …
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We investigate the relationship between early school-leaving and parental education and paternal income using UK Labour … Force Survey data. OLS estimation reveals modest effects of income, stronger effects of maternal education relative to … income, we find no effect of maternal education. Under certain assumptions, paternal education remains significant (for …
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This paper looks at the economic returns to different fields of study in Ireland in 2004 and also the value placed on various job-related competencies, accumulated on completion of higher education, in the Irish labour market. In examining these issues the paper seeks to control for potential...
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the lives of secondary school students of different social backgrounds and in different school settings, in a high … higher socio-economic student intakes. SE is viewed as an investment, particularly among students with average and above … average levels of prior attainment, while high attaining students are less likely to use SE. Perhaps reflecting the …
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unequally distributed across different groups of children, including those from immigrant backgrounds. The impact of parents …' and their children's cultural capital on student grades and educational ambitions has been identified in both longitudinal …-year-old immigrant children from different national groups using data from the child cohort of the Growing Up in Ireland …
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A large literature has emerged around the strong association between income inequality and average life expectancy and …-materialist hypothesis’. We examine the ability of these hypotheses to explain the link between income inequality and mental well being in … social protection and the quality of a range of social services reduce the coefficient measuring income inequality by over …
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The empirical association between income inequality, population health and other social problems is now well … psycho-social effects of status comparisons. Here, income inequality is a marker of a wider status hierarchy that provokes an …". If true, this would imply a structured relationship between income inequality at the societal level, individual income …
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There is much disagreement in the literature over the extent to which graduates are mismatched in the labour market and the reasons for this. In this paper we utilise the Flexible Professional in the Knowledge Society (REFLEX) data set to cast light on these issues, based on data for UK...
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In this paper I investigate the extent to which the Irish higher education system promotes inclusion or diversion in relation to social selectivity. In doing so, stratification processes are examined for two educational outcomes: inequality in the type of higher education institution attended...
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This paper uses EU-SILC data from 2005 and 2006 to explore the hypothesis that international differences in rates of return to education reflect variations in the level of risk associated with educational investments. While there was some evidence to support this hypothesis with regards to...
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