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Pathways to employment: Subject choice, job requirements, and early employment outcomes for UK undergraduates

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Higher education in the United Kingdom has dramatically expanded in recent decades, along with questions about its effectiveness in preparing graduates for the labour market. With rising tuition fees and increasing competition for graduate jobs, many students opt to study ‘professional’ subjects—fields closely tied to specific professions ...
Sarah Pemberton
wiley   +1 more source

Inequality of opportunity and economic development [PDF]

Just as equality of opportunity becomes an increasingly prominent concept in normative economics, the authors argue that it is also a relevant concept for positive models of the links between distribution and aggregate efficiency.
Ferreira, Francisco H. G., Walton, Michael   +1 more
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Parental choice of private tuition: Valuing attention, judging quality and navigating access in England's underregulated supplementary education market

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Private supplementary education is burgeoning worldwide, and over 25% of English children have received private tutoring. The neoliberalisation of education and parents' responsibilisation for children's attainment have driven market growth, but not all can afford to participate.
Sarah L. Holloway, Sam Whewall, Helena Pimlott‐Wilson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sweden's economic inequality gap is widening and worrying. [PDF]

Lancet Reg Health Eur, 2023
The Lancet Regional Health-Europe.
europepmc   +1 more source

Does Growth Affect the Nature of Inequality? Ireland 1994–2001 [PDF]

Much has been written about the relationship between economic growth and aggregate inequality in recent years. In this paper we extend this literature by examining whether economic growth affects, not the level, but rather the nature of inequality. To do
Doris, Aedin, O'Neill, Donal, Sweetman, Olive   +2 more
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Understanding international students' agency in developing employability: Case study of a post‐1992 university in the United Kingdom

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Employability remains a critical issue for international students in the United Kingdom. This study adopts the Employability Agency Framework proposed by Pham et al. to explore how a group of international students actively exercised their agency to enhance their employability during their Master's studies in the United Kingdom.
Hoang Nguyen, Ming Cheng
wiley   +1 more source

Health of midlife and older adults in China: the role of regional economic development, inequality, and institutional setting [PDF]

, 2017
Xuejie Ding, Francesco C. Billari, Stuart Gietel‐Basten   +2 more
openalex   +1 more source

International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality [PDF]

While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size.
Kahanec, Martin, Zimmermann, Klaus F.
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International student agency in academic self‐formation: Mobility as agency situated within knowledge structures

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract With growing attention to student agency in academic and policy discourse, international education has become a prominent context for examining how students navigate new cultural, academic, linguistic and social environments. However, much of this discussion attributes student agency to the ‘international’ aspect, while overlooking the ...
Soyoung Lee
wiley   +1 more source

The prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its economic inequality in an elderly population. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Fotouhi F, Hashemi H, Yekta A, Niroomand M, Esmaeili M, Norouzirad R, Vaghefi N, Khabazkhoob M.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source