The Quest for More and More Education: Implications for Social Mobility
The Quest for More and More Education: Implications for Social Mobility
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寻求越来越多的教育：对社会流动性的影响
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2012
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S. Machin
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J. Lindley;S. Machin
在本文中，我们讨论了对越来越多的教育的追求及其对社会流动性的影响。我们记录了英国在过去30年左右的时间里教育水平的快速提升，并表明这种提升的特点是来自相对富裕家庭背景的人接受教育的速度更快。与此同时，受教育程度较高的人的工资差距也在扩大。把这两者放在一起（富裕背景的人接受更多的教育，以及这种教育的回报增加）意味着增加了一代人内部的不平等，并且通过加强上一代已经存在的不平等，这阻碍了社会流动。我们还强调了迄今为止尚未很好地整合到社会流动性文献中的三个重要方面：获得研究生资格；性别差异;在教育分布的低端，男性的教育表现不佳。
In this paper, we discuss the quest for more and more education and its implications for social mobility. We document very rapid educational upgrading in Britain over the last thirty years or so and show that this rise has featured faster increases in education acquisition by people from relatively rich family backgrounds. At the same time, wage differentials for the more educated have risen. Putting these two together (more education for people from richer backgrounds and an increase in the payoff to this education) implies increasing within generation inequality and, by reinforcing already existent inequalities from the previous generation, this has hindered social mobility. We also highlight three important aspects that to date have not been well integrated into the social mobility literature: the acquisition of postgraduate qualifications; gender differences; and the poor education performance of men at the lower end of the education distribution.