Expansion of higher education and inequality of opportunities: a cross-national analysis

Liu, Ye; Green, Andrew; Pensiero, Nicola

doi:10.1080/1360080x.2016.1174407

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“…In a number of countries-most notably France, Luxembourg, Finland, Israel, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands-the expansion was not linear, with a substantial shift in the proportion of cohorts with tertiary education born in 1970-1975. This is in line with previous studies highlighting a massive educational expansion that occurred during the 1990s, when the aforementioned cohorts entered the higher educational system (Marginson 2016;Liu et al 2016) and can be attributed to some extent to the above-mentioned changes in the higher educational systems, at least for the UK, the Netherlands, France and Finland. In the United States and Denmark, the educational expansion began earlier, with cohorts born in 1960-1965 being its first beneficiaries.…”

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More necessary and less sufficient: an age-period-cohort approach to overeducation from a comparative perspective

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In many countries, the skilled labor market has lagged educational expansion. As a result of increased competition, younger cohorts of the highly educated face decreasing returns to education or overeducation. Surprisingly, decreasing occupational outcomes do not coincide empirically with the economic returns among those with tertiary education. Regarding the process of changes in economic returns to education based on cohort transformations, we expect that the expansion of tertiary education affects specific cohorts, which find themselves facing more labor market competition. As a result, the economic returns to education should decrease among younger cohorts even when the overall returns to education remain stable over time. To study this process, we model economic returns with a new age-period-cohort-trended lag (APCTLAG) method, which allows us to compare the gap in economic returns between tertiary and less than tertiary education over cohorts. Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), we analyze trends over three decades in 12 countries. Our results confirm that educational returns for tertiary education have declined over time, even though the gap between the educated and the less educated has remained similar in most of the countries. For younger cohorts, tertiary education has become more necessary to survive in the competitive labor market, but the actual economic returns have decreased-making tertiary education less sufficient than before.

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More necessary and less sufficient: an age-period-cohort approach to overeducation from a comparative perspective

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“…12 Shavit et al's (2007) study primarily focused on East Asian societies and Western industrialised countries. Liu et al's (2016) research also primarily focused on OECD countries. Therefore, the results on the expansion of higher education and the impact on increasing participation might not be extended to other developing contexts.…”

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“…This decentralised funding policy might have incentivised individual universities to provide more student places, especially those institutions at the provincial level. Research elsewhere suggests a positive correlation between the fee-charging and increasing participation 12 (Shavit et al 2007;Liu et al 2016). However, this increase in participation in higher education did not seem to result in greater geographical equality in access since there is an uneven distribution of higher education institutions across the regions, but also due to the socio-economic differences between regions.…”

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Geographical stratification and the provision of education in contemporary China

Liu¹

2017

Handbook of Welfare in China

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“…Frá síðustu aldamótum hefur hlutfall háskólamenntaðra kvenna þannig haekkað hraðar en karla á Ís-landi og bilið því aukist jafnt og þétt konum í hag (Mennta-og menningarmálaráðuneytið, 2015a). Hins vegar hefur menntabil eftir þáttum á borð við kynþátt eða stéttarstöðu foreldra víða staðið í stað eða jafnvel aukist þótt menntunarstig allra hópa fari haekkandi (Gillborn, Demack, Rollock og Warmington, 2017;Liu, Green og Pensiero, 2016).…”

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Staðsetning háskóla og menntabil í háskólamenntun

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2018

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Umtalsverður munur er á hlutfalli háskólamenntaðs fólks á höfuðborgarsvæðinu og utan þess. Þetta menntabil skýrist að hluta til af fjölbreyttari atvinnumöguleikum háskólamenntaðs fólks á höfuðborgarsvæðinu en ýmsir aðrir efnahagslegir, félagslegir, menningarlegir og landfræðilegir þættir skipta þar einnig máli. Þannig hafa rannsóknir sýnt að staðsetning háskóla getur haft veruleg áhrif á búsetu brautskráðra háskólanema. Í þessari rannsókn eru áhrif íslenskra háskóla á menntunarstig og menntabil einstakra landsvæða metin á grundvelli manntals og spurningakannana meðal 25–64 ára íbúa landsins. Niðurstöður sýna að 28% íbúa höfuðborgarsvæðisins en 12–14% íbúa annarra landshluta hafa lokið prófi frá háskólum í Reykjavík. Mikill meirihluti háskólamenntaðra landsmanna hefur lokið prófi frá Háskóla Íslands. Hlutfallið er hæst á höfuðborgarsvæðinu en lægst á Akureyri, þar sem nánast jafn margir hafa lokið prófi frá Háskóla Íslands og Háskólanum á Akureyri. Á höfuðborgarsvæðinu og í öðrum þéttbýliskjörnum í seilingarfjarlægð á Háskólinn í Reykjavík næstmesta hlutdeild í háskólamenntuðum íbúum en á norðursvæði landsins er hlutdeild Háskólans á Akureyri næstmest. Flestir brautskráðir nemendur háskólanna í Reykjavík og Háskólans á Bifröst eru búsettir á höfuðborgarsvæðinu en búseta nemenda annarra háskóla er dreifðari um landið. Brautskráðir nemendur Háskólans á Akureyri skiptast nokkuð jafnt milli höfuðborgarsvæðisins, Akureyrar og annarra landsvæða en rúmlega helmingur brautskráðra nemenda Landbúnaðarháskóla Íslands er að vonum búsettur utan þéttbýlustu svæða landsins. Landsbyggðaháskólarnir útskrifa þannig nemendur sem eru mun líklegri til að búa utan höfuðborgarsvæðisins en áhrif þeirra á menntunarstig einstakra landsvæða eru einkum bundin við áhrif Háskólans á Akureyri á Akureyri og annars staðar á norðanverðu landinu. Eigi að hækka menntunarstig í öllum landshlutum og draga úr menntabili milli Reykjavíkur og annarra landshluta þarf að skilgreina slík markmið með skýrum hætti og ákveða hvort það skuli vera hlutverk allra háskóla eða sérstakt verkefni þeirra sem eru utan Reykjavíkur.

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Expansion of higher education and inequality of opportunities: a cross-national analysis

Cited by 56 publications

References 32 publications

More necessary and less sufficient: an age-period-cohort approach to overeducation from a comparative perspective

More necessary and less sufficient: an age-period-cohort approach to overeducation from a comparative perspective

Geographical stratification and the provision of education in contemporary China

Staðsetning háskóla og menntabil í háskólamenntun

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