Global Trends in Education Inequality: 1950–2010
Global Trends in Education Inequality: 1950–2010
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教育不平等的全球趋势：1950-2010
DOI：
10.1080/19452829.2021.1911968
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Diederik Boertien
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作者：
I. Permanyer;Diederik Boertien
摘要 我们使用绝对、中间和相对不平等指标记录了全球教育不平等的趋势及其国家之间和国家内部的组成部分。现有的研究依赖于将分类变量转换为连续变量来估计不平等程度。此类程序可能无法反映最近教育计划持续时间的延长。因此，我们编制了一个包含 1164 个数据集的数据库，其中包含来自世界各地许多国家的受教育年限信息。根据我们的研究结果，绝对、中间和相对视角对教育不平等的近期趋势产生了不一致的叙述。虽然相对全球不平等及其国内和国家间的组成部分在过去几十年中单调下降，但实际教育年限的绝对和中间不平等指标表明，全球教育不平等最近可能会加剧。无论我们坚持何种不平等概念，全球教育不平等的大部分都越来越多地由国家内部的差异来解释，而国家间的不平等逐渐失去了作为差异来源的地位。这些发现表明，全球化的力量正在使各国之间变得越来越相似，而全球教育不平等实际上是增加还是减少，越来越取决于这些国家内部发生的情况。
ABSTRACT We document trends in global education inequality and its between and within-country components using absolute, intermediate and relative inequality measures. Existing studies have relied on converting categorical variables into continuous ones to estimate levels of inequality. Such procedures might not capture recent expansions in the duration of educational programmes. We therefore compiled a database of 1164 datasets with information on years of education from a large set of countries across the world. According to our results, the absolute, intermediate and relative perspectives generate inconsistent narratives about recent trends in education inequality. While relative global inequality and its within- and between-country components have fallen monotonically during the last decades, absolute and intermediate inequality measures of actual years of education suggest that there might be a recent upsurge in global education inequality. Irrespective of the notion of inequality we adhere to, the bulk of global education inequality is explained more and more by variations within countries, with between-country inequality gradually losing ground as a source of variation. These findings suggest that the forces of globalisation are rendering countries increasingly similar among them, and that whether global education inequality actually increments or decrements increasingly depends on what happens within those countries.