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equality according to a substantial stable pattern over years. Our findings also depict that differences in education, in …
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In this paper we analyze the way in which changes in macro-economic circumstances and labour market institutions, that occurred in Italy over the ‘90s, affected the set of opportunities for young generations, amplify or shrinking existing inequalities. In particular we investigate whether they...
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-school enrolment, public expenditure in education and ability tracking display a significant equalizing effect. …
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According to the previous EU reports about Hungary: "the officially acknowledged 12 minorities integrated into the Hungarian society, the situation of the Hungarian gypsy minority remains difficult. The territorial layout of the gypsy population is more or less matched by the rural areas, where...
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In this paper we propose a de_nition of fairness in education which is based onthe theory of equality of opportunity …
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This working paper analyzes the performance of the Spanish educational system according to the 2006 PISA report, focussing on the equality of opportunity. The basic idea is that a good educational system should produce outcomes that depend basically on the students effort and not on the students...
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We first provide a brief critique of the utilitarian principle as a guide to fairness in the world trading system. We then turn to the alternative conception of fairness in terms of economic equity, exploring the meaning of its two components: equality of opportunity and distributive justice. We...
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We analyze in this working paper the impact of different policies on the investment of families in the education of … view to the future income that this capital will entail (under the assumption that higher education levels yield higher … expected income). Families optimal investment in education depends on their preferences (summarized by their time discount and …
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chose only one variable: father's level of education. We provide a range of estimates of the importance of this circumstance … variable in accounting for education and income inequality in one of the East Asian miracle countries. Father's education is … found to account for between 16 and 59 percent of education inequality, between 4 and 12% of wage inequality when the …
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intergénérationnelle, dans la structure de l'éducation et des professions et enfin dans les échelles de rémunération. Il apparaît que parmi …’enseignement primaire et secondaire, des rendements bas de l’éducation, et un faible dualisme entre le secteur agricole et les autres … intergenerational mobility between social origins and positions, of the distribution of education and occupations, and of the earnings …
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