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Inequality of opportunities of educational achievement in Turkey over time

Tansel, Aysıt - 2015

of these factors over time. Policies are necessary to improve equality of opportunity in education in Turkey. …

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Can political inequalities be educated away? : evidence from a Swedish school reform

Lindgren, Karl-Oskar; Oskarsson, Sven; Dawes, Christopher T. - 2014

recruitment. In this study, we examine the effectiveness of one such proposal: the expansion of mass education. More precisely, we …

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The evolution of social mobility : Norway over the 20th century

Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sarvimäki, Matti - 2016

This paper documents trends in social mobility in Norway starting from fathers born at the turn of the 20th century and ending with sons born in the 1970s. We measure social mobility with intergenerational income elasticities, associations between fathers' and sons' income percentiles, and...

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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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Affirmative action and long-run changes in group inequality in India

Kumar, Hemanshu; Somanathan, Rohini - 2016

points to divergence: communities with more education in 1961 also had higher educational attainment in 2001. Also, while …

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Inequality of opportunities of educational achievement in Turkey over time

Tansel, Aysıt - 2015

weakening of these factors over time. Policies are necessary to improve equality of opportunity in education in Turkey. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011297567

How redistributive policies reduce market inequality : education premiums in 22 OECD countries

Weisstanner, David; Armingeon, Klaus - 2018

What explains the large cross-country variation in the wage premium for higher education? Economic analyses of wage … differentials by education point to technological change and globalisation, but we know little about the impact of different types … of public policies. We argue that public education spending and tax-transfer policies contain the spread of “education …

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Can increased education help reduce the political opportunity gap?

Lindgren, Karl-Oskar; Oskarsson, Sven; Persson, Mikael - 2017

compared to persons from high-status families. This paper examines whether reforms in education can help to reduce the socio …) changes in the resources allocated to education between different socio-economic groups (reform effects) and (b) changes in … return which relate to the impact of education on turnout in different groups. We use this framework to analyze a reform of …

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Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America : a new database

Neidhöfer, Guido; Serrano, Joaquín; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2017

series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over …

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Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America : a new database

Neidhöfer, Guido; Serrano, Joaquín; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2017

series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714448