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Borràs, Vicent; Trinidad, Albert; Alcaraz, Nuria; Moreno-Colom, Sara – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
The objective of this article is to analyse how the territory operates in the employability of young people who have failed or dropped out of school. As a starting hypothesis, we propose that the local traditions and the productive model linked to the territory condition the training and work expectations of the young population. A case study…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, Role, Employment Potential, Foreign Countries
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Oller, Judith; Largo, Mariana; Merino, Iris; Coll, César – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2020
Introduction: In the "new ecology of learning" it is becoming crucial to trace the paths of learning experiences that students develop both in school and outside it. Few research studies have focused on out-of-school activities. In this paper, we explore differences between children and adolescents in their participation through 26…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Learning Experience, Children, Adolescents
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Bravo-Moreno, Ana – Power and Education, 2022
The purpose of this article is to examine academia and the abuse of power based on auto-ethnographic research. I draw on my experiences across 12 universities in different locations in Spain, the UK and the USA that expose the way power is embedded in institutions of higher education and how it is maintained. This article analyses the exploration…
Descriptors: Ethics, Power Structure, Guidelines, Gender Differences
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Larraz, Beatriz – Sociological Methods & Research, 2015
The aim of this article is to propose a new breakdown of the Gini inequality ratio into three components ("within-group" inequality, "between-group" inequality, and intensity of "transvariation" between groups to the total inequality index). The between-group inequality concept computes all the differences in salaries…
Descriptors: Income, Statistical Distributions, Social Differences, Socioeconomic Status
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Runte-Geidel, Ariadne; Marzo, Pedro Femia – European Education, 2015
This article examines the use of shadow education by students of compulsory secondary education in Spain over the period 2000-2010. The study identifies the proportion of the student population that uses this type of education and examines how the use of shadow education has evolved during this period. Data was drawn from the student questionnaire…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Socioeconomic Status, Profiles, Foreign Countries
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Chiner, Esther; Cardona-Moltó, María C.; Gómez Puerta, José Marcos – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the beliefs that teachers have about diversity and their level of sensitivity towards some topics related to it. Moreover, beliefs were compared according to teachers' personal and professional views and teaching experience. The "Personal and Professional Beliefs about Diversity Scales" (Pohan and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Diversity, Teacher Characteristics, Teaching Experience
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Salas-Velasco, Manuel – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2010
This paper examines the determination of wage rates for health professionals using three well known, and commonly used, econometric techniques: ordinary least squares, instrumental variables, and Heckman's method. The data come from a graduate survey and the analysis focuses on a regional labor market, due to nationwide information on salaries is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Surveys, Wages, Social Class
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Tesch-Romer, Clemens; Motel-Klingebiel, Andreas; Tomasik, Martin J. – Social Indicators Research, 2008
These analyses explore the relationship between gender inequality and subjective well-being. The hypothesis was tested as to whether societal gender inequality is related to the size of gender differences in subjective well-being in various societies. Results come from comparative data sets (World Values Survey, involving 57 countries; OASIS…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Well Being, Cross Cultural Studies