This article assesses trends over time in the influence of social origins on educational
attainment in 26 European countries. We use a cumulative dataset that merges the …

A large body of often rather complex findings on intergenerational social mobility has by now
come into existence but theoretical development has not kept pace. In this paper, focusing …

In the process of educational expansion and reforms, the old sharp divisions between
academic and vocational/technical tracks in the secondary school systems of modern …

This article aims to compare two aspects of the education systems in two East European
countries. As the political history of the Czech Republic and Poland in the past fifty years is …

Among the more relevant questions in educational research is how the governments and
policy‐makers in transition countries address the high educational inequality inherited from …

This article examines whether the influence of family background on educational attainment
has changed in Italy in the course of the 20th century. For several European countries …

Das Thema Bildungsgerechtigkeit ist spätestens seit den 1960er Jahren Gegenstand der
öffentlichen Diskussion. Prominent sind die Publikationen von Dahrendorf (1965), Peisert …

Socialist societies often emphasized the abolition of traditional social classes. To achieve
this objective, educational opportunities were at times 'actively managed'and allocated to …

This paper examines human capital gap between titular ethnicities and Russian-speaking
minorities, which has emerged in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania during the transition and …

Diversity in education systems, and broader political and economic conditions, are
commonly credited with international variation in inequality of educational opportunity (IEO) …