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Higher education, economic inequality and social mobility: implications for emerging East Asia
- Abstract:
- Higher education systems in the Chinese civilizational zone (East Asia) are rapidly improving in quantity and quality, associated with the growth of middle classes and absolute social mobility. But are they contributing to more equal opportunities between students with different backgrounds, and greater relative social mobility? The article reviews the case of the United States, where expansion of the middle-class growth and social mobility via education in the 1950s/1970s was followed in the 1980s and after by a marked increase in inequality in incomes and higher education, and less social mobility. Will this same reversal occur in China and Korea?
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2017.03.002
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- Elsevier
- Journal:
- International Journal of Educational Development More from this journal
- Volume:
- 63
- Pages:
- 4-11
- Publication date:
- 2017-03-20
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-03-06
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0738-0593
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pubs:957119
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- © Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Elsevier at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2017.03.002
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