Todo niño tiene derecho a la educación. Esto es lo que establece la Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Derechos del Niño. El objetivo de la educación es permitir al niño desarrollar su potencial en la mayor medida posible y aprender a respetar los derechos humanos y las libertades...

RESUMEN: En el presente documento se explora la movilidad intergeneracionalen educación desde una perspectiva regional. La pregunta central es ¿enqué ciudades y regiones la educación de los individuos depende menos de lade sus padres? Además, se estudia si los migrantes tuvieron mayor o...

Based on the Survey on Social and Biological Reproduction of the Uruguayan Population: an approximation to gender and generations car- ried out by the Gender and Generations project in 2004, we study the e¤ect of teenage childbearing on educational outcomes of mothers. The predicted results...

Los artículos que forman parte de este libro tienen como preocupación común el investigar la manera cómo los procesos educativos se relacionan con distintas formas de desigualdad. La investigación de Santiago Cueto analiza la relación entre las oportunidades de aprendizaje que tienen los...

In this paper we analyze intergenerational educational mobility for afro-descendants and no afro-descendants in Uruguay. We consider the relationship between educational achievements of teenagers and their parents’. The results show that relative mobility is higher among afro-descendants than...

Technology affects in a different way social, scholar and economic levels, depending on economic and cultural situation: educational sector is a clear example, which features a continued evolution. Educational development leads many educators, centres and universities to admit the necessity of...

One of the main concerns in the European Union (EU) is to improving educational achievements and the efficiency of the educational systems. In this work we analyse the educational efficiency in 18 European countries through a methodology that employs the pupil as decision making unit using PISA...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the ways people combine work and education in Spain and the relationship with the flexibilisation process of the labour market. This phenomenon has two faces: either working people are engaged on studies or students are on employment. The study of the...