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The end of reality : how four billionaires are selling a fantasy future of the metaverse, mars, and crypto
Taplin, Jonathan - 2023 - First edition
"At a time when the crises of income inequality, climate, and democracy, are compounding to create epic wealth disparity and the prospect of a second American civil war, four billionaires are hyping schemes that are designed to divert our attention away from issues that really matter. Each...
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Varieties of education and inequality : how the institutions of education and political economy condition inequality
Österman, Marcus - In: Socio-economic review 16 (2018) 1, pp. 113-135
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Educational inequality in Mozambique
Berg, Servaas van der; Maia, Carlos da; Burger, Cobus - 2017
higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …
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Income gaps : education and inequality
Leone, Julián; Cascio, Jorge Lo - In: Economics and business review 6/20 (2020) 4, pp. 27-50
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Inequalities in education from a global perspective : theoretical approaches, dimensions and policy discussions
Langthaler, Margarita; Malik, Julia - 2023
Attention to the issue of inequalities in education has risen considerably after the COVID-19 pandemic. Research points … labour, power and wealth. This Briefing Paper assesses the current international debate on inequality in education focussing …, we will provide an overview of the current status quo of global disparities in education. Finally, we will analyse the …
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Dimensions of Social Stratification and Their Relation to Mortality: A Comparison Across Gender and Life Course Periods in Finland
Hoffmann, Rasmus; Kröger, Hannes; Tarkiainen, Lasse; … - In: Social Indicators Research 145 (2019) 1, pp. 349-365
with an 80% oversample of deaths from the Finnish population with information on education, occupational class, individual … proportional hazard models and population attributable fractions. The total effects of education are substantially mediated by …
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Die Heterogenität familialer Lebensverläufe
Zimmermann, Okka; Konietzka, Dirk - In: KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und … 72 (2020) 4, pp. 651-680
Die bisherige Forschung zu übergreifenden Tendenzen des Wandels von Lebensverläufen ist durch unterschiedliche und teilweise ungenaue Verwendungen von Begriffen und Konzepten gekennzeichnet. Der Beitrag schlägt im Anschluss an jüngere methodische Entwicklungen ein mehrdimensionales Konzept...
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Slavery, racial inequality, and education : historical slavery may be a driver of human capital and its unequal racial distribution, with implications for education and income ineq...
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
Income inequality is a critical issue in both political and public debate. Educational attainment is a key causal factor of continuing inequality, since it influences human capital accumulation and, as a consequence, the unequal distribution of earnings. Educational inequality displays a racial...
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Social inequalities in health-related behaviours : is the grass greener on the other side?
Devaux, Marion - 2014
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Do education and income really explain inequalities in health? : applying a twin design
Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Lundborg, Per; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; … - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 118 (2016) 1, pp. 25-48
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