Persistent Inequality
Changing Educational Attainment In Thirteen Countries
1st Edition
Published on 19. August 1993
Book
Hardback
396 pages
978-0-8133-1121-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book offers a comparative study of change in educational stratification in 13 industrialized countries, exploring societal conditions that help reduce inequalities in educational opportunity. The contributors show that in most industrialized countries inequalities in educational opportunity have been remarkably stable since the early twentieth century. In all 13 countries the gender gap in education has narrowed; in some, women now attain higher mean levels of education than men. Highlighting these conclusions, the book develops new methods to deal with observed and unobserved sources of heterogeneity in models of educational attainment.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-1121-0 (9780813311210)
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Content
Changes in educational stratification in Taiwan; who gains and who loses in a socialist redistribution: educational attainment in Czechoslovakia?; changes in educational stratification in Japan; inequalities in post-war Poland; educational attainment in a changing British educational system; the 1968 reforms and the changing effects of family on educational attainment in the Netherlands; changes in the educational stratification of the Federal Republic of Germany; family and school continuation decisions in the Netherlands; making the Grade: educational transition rates in the US 1925-1985; do school reforms matter? social background and educational attainment in Israel; cohort and gender in the changing educational attainment process in Hungary.