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Social Mobility in the UK's Higher Education Sector: A Critical Review
Halsall, Jamie P.; Caldwell, Elizabeth F. - In: International Journal of Information Systems and Social … 9 (2018) 4, pp. 1-11
Social mobility is at the forefront of the British Government's plans to improve the lives of the most deprived groups in society. Since the election of the New Labour government in May 1997, consecutive governments have championed the concept of social mobility. The fundamental aim of social...
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Vocational bachelor graduates in France: labour market integration and social mobility
Calmand, Julien; Giret, Jean-François; Guégnard, Christine - In: International Journal of Manpower 35 (2014) 4, pp. 536-552
Purpose – In France, the vocationalization of higher education has resulted in an increase in the number of graduates and created new opportunities. The access of these vocational bachelor graduates to the labour market raises the issue of their professional prospects amid changing economic...
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Modelling accessibility to urban services using fuzzy logic
Thériault, Marius; Des Rosiers, François; Joerin, Florent - In: Journal of Property Investment & Finance 23 (2005) 1, pp. 22-54
Purpose – This paper is an attempt to bridge the gap between, on the one hand, the mobility behaviour of households and their perception of accessibility to urban amenities and, on the other hand, house price dynamics as captured through hedonic modelling. Design/methodology/approach – In...
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Mobilizing intellectual capital of diasporas: from first movers to a virtuous cycle
Kuznetsov, Yevgeny - In: Journal of Intellectual Capital 9 (2008) 2, pp. 264-282
Purpose – This conceptual paper seeks to develop hypotheses to explain a process of involvement of highly skilled members of diaspora to improve badly functioning institutions at home. Design/methodology/approach – To arrive at the hypotheses, the paper relies on four diaspora pilots (in...
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Social mobility and Fair Access to the accountancy profession in the UK
Duff, Angus - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 30 (2017) 5, pp. 1082-1110
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider how Big Four and mid-tier accountancy firms in the UK are responding to political concerns about social mobility and Fair Access to the accountancy profession. Design/methodology/approach Interviews were undertaken with 18 public accountancy...
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Access to higher education for Palestinians in Israel
Arar, Khalid; Mustafa, Mohanned - In: Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle … 4 (2011) 3, pp. 207-228
distribution and control in Israeli society. Social implications – Policy favoring re‐distribution of power alongside affirmative …
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Best practices for finding hidden talent and empowering social mobility
Linley, Alex - In: Strategic HR Review 14 (2015) 5, pp. 194-198
Purpose – Early career recruiters are increasingly focused on finding hidden talent and empowering social mobility, while also managing the reality of large recruitment volumes. A new approach to early careers recruitment solved both of these conflicting challenges. Design/methodology/approach...
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Geldpolitik, Arabellion und Flüchtlingskrise
von Prollius, Michael; Schnabl, Gunther - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 65 (2016) 3, pp. 299-320
Zusammenfassung: Seit dem Jahr 2015 ist Europa mit einer großen Flüchtlingswelle aus dem Nahen Osten und Nordafrika …
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The Politics of Income Inequality: Redistribution, Turnout and Responsiveness
Polacko, Matthew - In: Statistics, Politics and Policy 13 (2022) 2, pp. 201-218
inequality can have on preferences for redistribution, political participation, and policy responsiveness. It finds that the …Abstract Income inequality is viewed as one of the greatest challenges facing democracies today. Democracy is … predicated on the ideal of equality, but political inequality occurs when the preferences of some are systematically afforded …
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Taking care of your own: ethnic and religious heterogeneity and income inequality
Dincer, Oguzhan C.; Lambert, Peter J. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 39 (2012) 3, pp. 290-313
heterogeneity on the one hand and measures of inequality and redistribution on the other, using state‐level US data. Design …/methodology/approach – The relationship between ethnic/religious heterogeneity and inequality/redistribution is estimated, first, with ordinary … least squares (OLS) and then with generalized method of moments (GMM). The principal explanatory variables for inequality …
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