Contrary to misinformation circulating in the United States, the United States has more engineers absolutely and relatively than does Japan; and U.S. engineers have higher relative income and status than their Japanese counterparts. Compares U.S. and Japanese enrollments in engineering education, curriculum content, engineers' earnings relative to…

Enrollment of Greek students in domestic and foreign universities has increased dramatically since 1960. Demand for higher education continues to be strong despite diminishing income differentials, because higher education is cheap in Greece and is still associated with an earnings premium. Movement toward a privatization model for higher…

The author attempts to identify which females, in different educational levels and family situations, have a greater propensity to participate in the labor market and to evaluate how formal education and marital status influence this propensity. Data are drawn from the latest available censuses of Argentina (1970) and Paraguay (1972). (Author/SJL)

In Guatemala and Bolivia, countries with high proportions of ethnic (Native) population, indigenous workers had lower educational attainment and earned less at every educational level, relative to nonindigenous workers. The differences between ethnic groups were greater in Guatemala than Bolivia. (SV)

In Jamaica, structural adjustment policies have severely limited employment opportunities in the formal sector, and approximately 40% of the labor force engages in "informal" self-employment. Interviews with 250 self-employed microentrepreneurs revealed that effects on income of experience and various types of education differed between…

Considers the impact of Costa Rican public higher education expansion on social stratification and labor markets. Suggests that the 1970s reform was accompanied by increased stratification of the higher education population through creation of new institutions of different quality, dilution of education resources, and stimulation of drop-out…

Data from four social surveys in the Czech Republic reveal that higher education is returning as a strategy for life success, after being discarded for decades due to Communist egalitarian ideology. Economic returns to education have increased but college graduates feel underpaid. However, many people still hold the "socialist" belief…

This issue of the Comparative Education Review focuses on analysis of data gathered by 19 countries participating in a six-subject survey conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). The purpose of this and earlier IEA research (a pilot study and a mathematics study undertaken on the basis of the…

Major intergenerational changes in occupational structure, common in many countries, can invalidate conclusions drawn from correlation/path analysis studies of status attainment (Wisconsin model). Longitudinal data on Chilean youth of different social strata and the Chilean occupational structure are used to explain education's role in…

Criticizes the state of educational economics through a review of "Economics of Education: Research and Studies" (G. Psacharopoulos, ed.) and "The Economics of Education and the Education of an Economist" (M. Blaug). Charges that educational economists have ignored external challenges and devastating technical and conceptual…

This analysis is based on Gendel's 1968 data concerning the central Russian city of Syzran. Information is presented on the placements of graduating eighth- and tenth-grade students: general secondary, technicum, vocational school, and work. Student's educational aspirations are correlated with parent's education, parent's occupational status, and…

This article looks at Philippine data describing the upward course of educational attainment during a period of especially rapid economic change. It focuses on the distributional features of schooling as a status characteristic, relating the distribution of education to some important personal characteristics, including sex and aspects of social…

Examines equity aspects of Greek "free" higher education by analyzing differential benefits and costs of public subsidization and by determining individual benefits of education by social origin. Finds that the poor pay proportionately more for schooling (through taxes) and receive less in terms of educational attainment and educational…