The economics of education : human capital, family background and inequality

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In an important contribution to educational policy, Daniele Checchi offers an economic perspective on the demand and supply of education. He explores the reasons why, beyond a certain point, investment in education has not resulted in reductions in social inequalities. Starting with the seminal work of Gary Becker, Checchi provides an extensive survey of the literature on human capital and social capital formation. He draws on individual data on intergenerational transmission of income and education for the USA, Germany and Italy, as well as aggregate data on income and educational inequality for a much wider range of countries. … celý popis

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Hlavní autor

Daniele Checchi, 1958-

Typ dokumentu

Knihy

Fyzický popis

xi, 278 s. : il.

Vydáno

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006

Vydání

1st pub.

Témata

vzdělávací politika

vzdělávání

vzdělávací systémy

ekonomika školství

financování vzdělání

studie

educational policy

education

educational systems

economics of education

studies

Popis jednotky

Dotisk r. 2007
Brož. dotisk r. 2008

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ISBN

978-0-521-06646-4
978-0-521-79310-0
0-521-79310-6
0-521-06646-8