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LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, Jan 30, 2019
Oxford University Press eBooks, Jan 30, 2014
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Aug 1, 2013
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 2004
Debates around inequality often focus on upward social mobility. But there is another side to the... more Debates around inequality often focus on upward social mobility. But there is another side to the coin, write Abigail McKnight and Richard V. Reeves. Serious problems are being created by the fact that those from better-off families are protected from downward mobility, combined with slow economic growth and its impact on the creation of well-paid jobs.
LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, Apr 1, 2021
Handbook of Contemporary Education Economics
This chapter reviews the evidence on the role education plays in determining social mobility. It ... more This chapter reviews the evidence on the role education plays in determining social mobility. It begins by examining how education has been incorporated into theoretical models of social mobility. It reviews the evidence on the relationship between family background, educational attainment and social mobility. It examines findings from the developing literature on the role of non-cognitive skills. Finally, the chapter examines research looking at barriers to increasing social mobility through education policy.
Towards a more equal society?
550 (consumers, money-lenders) did not adapt their behaviour to the new environment of a stable c... more 550 (consumers, money-lenders) did not adapt their behaviour to the new environment of a stable currency. In the meantime, however, they seem to have learned this lesson and, therefore, the prospects for the euro look much more positive. To see the EU as a community of law would also imply a role different from the one foreseen by Giddens, which is to be a new powerful actor on the global scene, on a par with the USA and China, and backed by military power. Rather, it would confi rm the old idea of Europe as a ’Civil Power’, focusing upon peaceful negotiations instead of military interventions and the strengthening of such methods and institutions (such as the United Nations) around the world. The EU has a world-wide positive image just because it limits itself (maybe willy-nilly) to such a role. Thus, in my view there exist a series of objections against the vision that the EU should become a federal state. Nevertheless, the ideas proposed by Giddens have sharpened such a vision an...
Oxford Economic Papers, 2018
LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, Jan 30, 2019
Oxford University Press eBooks, Jan 30, 2014
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Aug 1, 2013
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 2004
Debates around inequality often focus on upward social mobility. But there is another side to the... more Debates around inequality often focus on upward social mobility. But there is another side to the coin, write Abigail McKnight and Richard V. Reeves. Serious problems are being created by the fact that those from better-off families are protected from downward mobility, combined with slow economic growth and its impact on the creation of well-paid jobs.
LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, Apr 1, 2021
Handbook of Contemporary Education Economics
This chapter reviews the evidence on the role education plays in determining social mobility. It ... more This chapter reviews the evidence on the role education plays in determining social mobility. It begins by examining how education has been incorporated into theoretical models of social mobility. It reviews the evidence on the relationship between family background, educational attainment and social mobility. It examines findings from the developing literature on the role of non-cognitive skills. Finally, the chapter examines research looking at barriers to increasing social mobility through education policy.
Towards a more equal society?
550 (consumers, money-lenders) did not adapt their behaviour to the new environment of a stable c... more 550 (consumers, money-lenders) did not adapt their behaviour to the new environment of a stable currency. In the meantime, however, they seem to have learned this lesson and, therefore, the prospects for the euro look much more positive. To see the EU as a community of law would also imply a role different from the one foreseen by Giddens, which is to be a new powerful actor on the global scene, on a par with the USA and China, and backed by military power. Rather, it would confi rm the old idea of Europe as a ’Civil Power’, focusing upon peaceful negotiations instead of military interventions and the strengthening of such methods and institutions (such as the United Nations) around the world. The EU has a world-wide positive image just because it limits itself (maybe willy-nilly) to such a role. Thus, in my view there exist a series of objections against the vision that the EU should become a federal state. Nevertheless, the ideas proposed by Giddens have sharpened such a vision an...
Oxford Economic Papers, 2018