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students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …
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outcomes (continuous outcomes such as potential earnings, or discrete ones such as education groups) and captures dynastic …. Results indicate that mobility in terms of education and potential earnings were markedly to the advantage of women. A large … part of the population was lifted out of illiteracy, possibly due to large-scale education and school construction reforms …
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emergence of a transnational oligarchy. -- globalization ; education ; elites ; meritocracy ; recruitment ; social mobility …
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This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...
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education levels. We find that the gender earnings gap increases with the educational level. For instance, at 40 years of age …, women without high school degrees earned on average 28.8 per cent less than men with the same level of education and for the …
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greater when considering students from affirmative action programmes and for courses in the field of technology. But the …
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This study analyses intergenerational class mobility in China as a case study of a quantitative sociological approach to social mobility research in the Global South. Drawing on national representative surveys collected between 2010 and 2015 in China, the analysis focuses on absolute and...
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The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...
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' human capital and interest in science and postgraduate education studies through a substantial increase in scholarships for … increasing approved student enrolment in postgraduate education programmes in Brazil. Even though the programme could have …
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the education and labour market. We explore the witches' broom outbreak in cocoa farms in the world's second most …-term education and earnings of individuals living in affected municipalities. We show a piece of evidence that the increase in child …
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