Public versus Private: Inequality in Educational Access & Welfare State Structuration
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Seufert-Navarro, Dale
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Economic inequality is on the rise in many postindustrial countries. Explanations for this have identified multiple factors facilitating this trend, with recent economic transitions playing a key role. Previously Fordist-organized economies deindustrialized into knowledge-based economies. As such, education has become important for labor market integration. Therefore, education, or a lack thereof, is a central mechanism behind inequality. But what of different methods of educational access – public and private education? Using cross-national data between 1995 and 2016 for 19 postindustrial countries, this work finds that heavier reliance on private education results in greater measures of market income inequality and wage dispersion. Conversely, higher levels of public education spending are associated with lower levels of both. Additionally, this work finds a mixed association between tertiary educational attainment and wage dispersion.
- Date of publication
- 2023
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- Journal title
- North Carolina Journal of European Studies
- Journal volume
- 4
- Journal issue
- 1
- Page start
- 25
- Page end
- 43
- Language
- English
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