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Direct linkLehmann, Wolfgang – British Educational Research Journal, 2012
Human capital theorists perceive of educational expansion as beneficial to individuals, corporations and national economies, while social closure theorists have claimed that inflation of credential requirements maintains traditional status inequalities. In this paper I argue that status inequalities are not only maintained by credential inflation,…
Descriptors: Credentials, Human Capital, College Students, Foreign Countries
