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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract School segregation is an international problem undermining the performance and equity of education systems. Australia's secondary schooling system offers international insights into the causes of segregation owing to it being one of the most segregated in the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development, its long history of school ...
Michael G. Sciffer +2 more
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Updated Long-Term Projections for Social Security [PDF]
, 2008 [Excerpt] The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) regularly prepares long-term projections of the future paths of revenues and outlays for the Social Security program.
Congressional Budget Office
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research evidence is mixed on the consequences of ability grouping policies, but most research has found an overrepresentation of disadvantaged social demographics in low‐ability groups. However, researchers have neglected to explain why ability grouping policies vary between countries.
Monica Reichenberg +2 more
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Inequalities in school spending across local authorities in England: A time‐trend analysis
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Investment in schools has wide‐ranging implications for society, from improving learning outcomes to economic growth and social cohesion. Addressing inequalities in school funding is important, as part of an effort to guarantee equal opportunities.
Lateef Akanni +10 more
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Achieving Amicable Settlements and Possible Reconciliations : The Role of Forensic Accountants in Equitable Distributions [PDF]
, 2013 This book is focussed on investigating how a proper implementation of forensic accounting tools could serve as a means and channel whereby such techniques as valuations, equitable distribution and evidence could be employed in avoiding unnecessary ...
Di Gabriele, Jim, Ojo, Mariane.B.
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Improving retention and graduate outcomes for students from a widening participation (WP) background is key to achieving more equitable outcomes. However, evidence suggests WP students experienced different challenges than their peers during the COVID‐19 pandemic.
Wilhelmiina Toivo +4 more
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A social welfare model for the evaluation of the spanish income tax system [PDF]
, 1996 In this paper we present a social welfare model for the evaluation of the Spanish income tax system in 1986 and 1988. The redistributive effect, capturing the improvement in vertical inequality, and the revenue effect, capturing the loss in mean ...
Ruiz-Castillo, Javier, Vargas, Carmen
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper critically analysed how school readiness has been historically and discursively constructed in Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy in England over the past four decades. Using Bacchi's ‘What's the Problem Represented to be?’ framework and Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, the paper explored how school readiness has shifted
Louise Kay
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A cross-country quarterly database of real house prices: a methodological note [PDF]
We build from (mainly) publicly available national sources a database of (nominal and real) house prices—complemented with data on private disposable income (PDI)—for 19 advanced countries at a quarterly frequency, starting in the first quarter of 1975 ...
Adrienne Mack, Enrique Martínez-García
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Towards a European Union Child Basic Income? Within and between country effects [PDF]
, 2013 : This paper explores the within and between country distributional implications of an illustrative Child Basic Income (CBI) operated at EU level. Using EUROMOD, we establish that a universal payment of €50 per month per child aged under 6 could take 800,
Levy, H, Matsaganis, M, Sutherland, H
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