... that growing equalization in education may have contributed to the increase in social fluidity. In our analyses we find that this is so, but educational expansion also led to greater fluidity in some countries. There is also a strong link between upward mobility and social fluidity. Upward mobility was mostly...

... of the macro-level determinants of health inequalities, especially conducted for this book. It shows that the persistence of health inequalities is partly due to broader changes in society, such as educational expansion, increasing rates of intergenerational mobility, and more intermarriage of highly educated...

... but the working class. economic structure education system employment migration social structure universities women specific mentions equality policies digitalization Federal Government institution Social Stratification Migration Economic Growth Educational Expansion Income Inequality Over the last...

...This chapter on Hungary examines the role of educational qualifications in career entry for cohorts leaving the education system after 1989 and determines whether there have been any changes in this role since regime transformation. It analyzes how educational expansion at both secondary...

...Over the last few decades, three East Asian societies—Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—have experienced an extraordinary degree of educational expansion, to the extent that their young adults are among the most educated population in the world. The roles of education in intergenerational social...

... is considerably weaker than at lower levels of education. educational reforms “middle way” policies in Sweden OD origin destination association Sweden educational equalization declining educational inequality educational expansion social fluidity and age ED CED change in education destination association...

... firm exits from collective bargaining Hartz laws Hysteresis Occupational upgrading skill-biased technological change educational expansion immigration wage-setting labour market institutions This book examines the patterns of occupational change in Western Europe. It sifts through a mountain...

... in different occupations, depending on whether highly educated or low educated workers abound in a given region. This chapter analyzes the role of skills supplies by first documenting educational expansion and showing that Europe's skill structure evolved in parallel with occupational upgrading. It then looks...

... University Press. © Oxford University Press 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197585245.003.0008 This chapter traces the development of regional varieties of knowledge economies over the past two centuries from a global perspective. First, it shows massive educational expansion across all world regions...

... Certicate SLC university degree young people capacity to aspire educational expansion generation gestures higher education Kathmandu Valley Liechty Mark middle class status private education Tribhuvan University TU Tri Chandra College university admission Western education ethnic groups...

... Project Fenix Project Turma Mais vocational education Teaching and Learning International Survey TALIS Global Teacher Status Index national exams educational expansion school accountability PISA teachers educational policies What was the education level of the Portuguese population...

... soft power higher education educational expansion internationalization marketization educational inequality university governance Hong Kong On July 1, 1997, the sovereignty of Hong Kong was officially transferred from the United Kingdom to the People’s Republic of China. Hong Kong was renamed...

...This chapter reviews key results and conclusions from the other chapters in this book, focusing in particular on the consequences of educational expansion for young people and the effectiveness of secondary programs in integrating young people into the labor market. It also summarizes results from...

...Gender inequalities in education changed profoundly in the course of contemporary educational expansion. While public and scientific discourses have long focused on the disadvantages of girls and women in education, in recent decades the ‘failing boys’ debate and, thus the disadvantaged situation...

...This chapter describes how the book is organized and presents a brief overview of educational expansion over the past two centuries. Education, considered as the preserve of privileged classes until the 19th century, began to grow in advanced countries, and it then spread to developing countries...

... European immigration Fernández Macías Enrique German reunification Spitz Oener Alexandra Post Reunification Recession 1991–3 Streeck Wolfgang technological change routinization polarization upskilling offshoring educational expansion Since the Industrial Revolution, there has been an on-going...

... a case study of recent reforms in the German vocational education and training sector related to global educational expansion and academization. Findings include that in this sector the main pattern of gradual institutional change is layering, implying that new institutions are added on top of existing...

... professionalization educational expansion inequality exclusion This chapter will provide a reflection on the function of education in world society. It will build upon a sociological line of reasoning for which labels such as functionalism and systems theory are often used. As any other important sociological...

... of the subsequent country chapters are set out. educational reforms public interest in social mobility absolute social mobility ascription ‘ascriptive effect’ class class origins educational expansion educational system institutions OD origin destination association OD origin destination association...

...This chapter investigates intergenerational class mobility in the U.S. during the twentieth century. It describes absolute and relative mobility trends and explores the role of educational expansion in shaping them. Analyses are based on data from several nationally representative surveys (GSS, OCG...