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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 532 avhandlingar innehållade ordet inequality.

  1. 11. Mating and Political Inequality

    Författare :Moa Frödin Gruneau; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political inequality; Mating; Turnout; Political represenation;

    Sammanfattning : Political equality is one of the cornerstones of a well-functioning democracy. Yet, very few democracies live up to this ideal. In this dissertation, I show that a central part of human behavior, mating, can help us explain why political inequalities are difficult to change. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Inequality in Educational Outcomes : How Aspirations, Performance, and Choice Shape School Careers in Sweden

    Författare :Frida Rudolphi; Jan O. Jonsson; Michael Gähler; Anthony Heath; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; achievement; aspirations; attainment; educational choice; ethnic inequality; performance; social origin; Sociology; sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines different aspects of educational inequalities, drawing on the notion that inequality in educational attainment depends on two separate mechanisms: that children from advantaged social backgrounds perform better at school (primary effects) and tend more than others to choose to continue in education given performance (secondary effects). Study I shows that the long-term decrease in social class inequality in the transition from compulsory to academic upper secondary education since the middle of the mid-20th century up to the late 1990s, seems to be related to both declining primary and secondary effects. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Two Essays on Income Inequality in Chile

    Författare :Alexis Palma; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Chile; inequality;

    Sammanfattning : This first paper summarizes the explanations given to the level and change of income and earnings inequality in Chile in the last decades. Education has been found to be a key factor behind earnings inequality in Chile, explaining 9-40%, depending on the survey, definition of income, year, method, and sample used. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Two versions of Markov's inequality

    Författare :Johan Lithner; Hans Wallin; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Approximation theory; Markov s inequality; Mathematical analysis; Analys; Mathematics; matematik;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  7. 15. Explaining Earnings and Income Inequality in Chile

    Författare :Alexis Palma; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Income Inequality; Inequality Decomposition; Chile; Labor Market; Informal Sector; Bootstrap; Quintile Regressions;

    Sammanfattning : The focal point of all papers in this thesis is income inequality in Chile. In some of them household income is analyzed, in others monthly earnings or the wage rate are used. In the first and fourth paper a long-run analysis is done, while in the second and third I concentrate my attention only on the 1990s. LÄS MER