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Measuring the Contribution of Social Policies to Regional Inequality Dynamic in Brazil [PDF]

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We decompose the recent changes in regional inequality in Brazil into its components, highlighting the role of spatially blind social programs. We aggregate personal income micro data to the state level, differentiating 9 income sources, and assess the ...
Carlos Azzoni, Raul Silveira Neto
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International student agency in academic self‐formation: Mobility as agency situated within knowledge structures

open access: yesBritish 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 Shape of the Income Distribution and Economic Growth: Evidence from Swedish Labor Market Regions [PDF]

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We analyze the association between inequality and growth across 72 labor market regions in Sweden 1990-2006. Highly accurate measures of growth and inequality (gini, Q3, p9075, p5010) are derived from population register data.
Rooth, Dan-Olof, Stenberg, Anders
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Socioeconomic and Indigenous school segregation in Australia: The role of institutional differentiation and fees

open access: yesBritish 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
wiley   +1 more source

Urban income inequality in China revisited, 1988-2002 [PDF]

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Using newly available spatial price deflators, this paper shows that inequality evaluations in the literature overstate the magnitude of inequality and inequality changes in China, as well as the role played by regional differences in the observed ...
Martin Fournier, Shi Li, Sylvie Demurger
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Regional Income Distribution in Portugal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The structural evolution of the European economy has shown a real convergence between countries and divergence between regions (Mateus et al., 2000), so the economic and social cohesion, namely the approach of the various territories ...
Guerreiro, Gertrudes
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Food banks in schools in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the number and distribution of food banks in schools in England. Drawing on a novel source of nationally representative data, we show that one in five schools operate a food bank. This amounts to over 4000 school‐based food banks across the country.
William Baker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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