Educational Expansion and Inequality in Taiwan and the Czech Republic
| Autor: | Shu-Ling Tsai, Petr Mateju, Michael L. Smith, Min-Hsiung Huang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Czech
Economic growth 050402 sociology Inequality media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Pooling 050301 education Probit Educational inequality Educational attainment language.human_language Education 0504 sociology Political science language Demographic economics Comparative education 0503 education School system media_common |
| Zdroj: | Comparative Education Review. 60:339-374 |
| ISSN: | 1545-701X 0010-4086 |
| Popis: | This article presents a comparative analysis of educational inequality by family background and gender in Taiwan and the Czech Republic, which have both experienced substantial educational expansion in the last half-century under different educational systems. We highlight the specific institutional histories of both countries and examine the role of dead-end tracks in mediating educational inequality by family background. Pooling the most recent data available, we use probit analyses of inequality in secondary and tertiary educational attainment across 5-year birth cohorts from 1956 to 1985. In terms of secondary educational attainment, we find that the gap in inequalities by family background between the countries is large, with a decline in inequality in Taiwan but persistent inequality in the Czech case. We attribute these findings to differences in educational expansion and characteristics of the secondary school system. However, in tertiary educational attainment, we find similarities in educational... |
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