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Weijuan Wu; Xuelin Yang; Yehui Lao – SAGE Open, 2025
This article uses survey data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS2015) to test whether the educational level across three generations are transmitted within families and whether number of grandparents' children influences these intergenerational transmissions in China. We obtain evidences that the educational level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Generational Differences, Longitudinal Studies
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Youxi Jiao; Xiulan Yu – Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 2024
Generation Z as digital natives are distinguished by their intense engagement in online activity. This article is an analysis of the impact of the internet use on academic performance in Gen Z based on data from the China Family Panel Studies (CEPS) 2020. Research findings show that there exist divides in the internet use among members of Gen Z…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Internet, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
Wall, Katherine; Wood, Shane – Statistics Canada, 2023
This study uses the 2021 Census to describe the educational attainment and earnings of the Canadian-born Black population, focusing on three groups: (1) those with at least one African-born parent (African-origin); (2) those with at least one Caribbean-born parent (Caribbean-origin) and (3) those whose parents were both born in Canada…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blacks, Educational Attainment, Income
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Ashley E. Maynard; Patricia M. Greenfield; Carla P. Childs; Michael Weinstock – Applied Developmental Science, 2024
Analyzing three sets of video data collected in one Maya community, we examined apprenticeship and learning of backstrap loom weaving over three generations spanning the years 1970 to 2012. Like many cultural groups, the Maya of Chiapas are experiencing rapid sociodemographic shifts. Three generations of girls (N = 134) were observed at their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Apprenticeships, Handicrafts
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Gabay-Egozi, Limor; Yaish, Meir – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
Focusing on the intergenerational educational association alone obscures discussions of downward and upward mobility and immobility patterns, which entail different life experiences and their potential consequences. Utilizing data on Israelis aged 25-32 years old over three periods, the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, during which tertiary education…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Educational Mobility, Foreign Countries, Generational Differences
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In, Jung; Breen, Richard – Sociology of Education, 2023
U.S. studies have found that stratified graduate education accounts for most of the relatively strong intergenerational socioeconomic association among postgraduate degree holders. The same association has been observed, but not explained, in countries with higher education systems that differ from that of the United States. We explore the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Study, Graduate Study, College Graduates
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Beicht, Ursula; Walden, Günter – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2019
Context: For young people with a migrant background in Germany transition from school to company-based vocational training is much more difficult than for non-migrants. This remains true, when data is controlled for the lower performance of young migrants in general education. In this paper we investigate if and how far the chances of transition…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Vocational Education, Generational Differences
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Dilmaghani, Maryam – Health Education, 2021
Purpose: Over the years, many upstream health policies have sought to reduce smoking across populations. While smoking has been substantially reduced, the effects of these policies on education-smoking gradient remain unclear. The present paper compares the education-smoking gradient among the Generation X and the millennials, who grew up with…
Descriptors: Smoking, Incidence, Public Policy, Public Health
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Yue, Zhiqiang; Yin, Ke – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2020
Based on the findings of the China General Social Survey, this study aims to analyze the trend of the intergenerational mobility in China since the implementation of the reform and opening-up policy by evaluating the absolute and relative mobility rates through the mobility table. The intergenerational mobility level in China is relatively high…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Parents, Children, Adults
Chen, Wen-Hao; Hou, Feng – Statistics Canada, 2019
Using 2016 Canadian Census data, this article examines the socioeconomic status of the second generation of immigrants, whose population has become increasingly diverse. The analysis focuses on group differences by visible minority status in two aspects relating to socioeconomic mobility: (1) intergenerational progress in educational attainment,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Mobility, Immigrants, Socioeconomic Status
OECD Publishing, 2016
Significant variations in educational attainment and labour market outcomes exist not only across OECD countries but also within them. Some regions concentrate the human capital of a country. In particular, many countries' capital regions stand out for their high share of tertiary-educated people. However, overall employment prospects are often…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Educational Indicators, Labor Market, Regional Characteristics
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Leker, Laura; Ponthiere, Gregory – Education Economics, 2015
Following Ben-Porath [1967. "The Production of Human Capital and the Life-Cycle of Earnings." "Journal of Political Economy" 75 (3): 352-365], the influence of life expectancy on education and on human capital has attracted much attention among growth theorists. Whereas existing growth models rely on an education decision made…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Expectation, Educational Attainment, Decision Making
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Khotkina, Z. A. – Russian Education and Society, 2013
Survey data comparing the life aspirations of three generations of Russians show an increase from the level of the Soviet generation of young people to the perestroika generation, followed by a decline in the generation of young people who were born and grew up in today's "market" Russia. One chief cause of the downward dynamic of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Generational Differences, Aspiration, Comparative Analysis
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Tverborgvik, Torill; Clausen, Lene Björk; Thorsted, Brian Larsen; Mikkelsen, Sigurd; Lynge, Elsebeth – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2013
In light of the Danish government's goal of 95% of every cohort achieving higher education by 2015, we investigate educational mobility in Denmark. Following 800,000 Danes and their parents, we found that children of parents with only basic education had a three-times-higher risk of achieving only basic education, compared with the children of…
Descriptors: Educational Mobility, Generational Differences, Social Differences, Social Mobility
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Symeonaki, Maria A.; Stamatopoulou, Glykeria A. – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
This article focuses on the study of intergenerational educational mobility in Greece. The primary purpose is to represent quantitatively the transitions of individuals, in order to determine whether and to what extent the educational levels attained are influenced by parental education. The authors use data drawn from the European Union…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Mobility, Statistical Analysis, Educational Attainment
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