Deliberating inequality: A blueprint for studying the social formation of beliefs about economic inequality

K Summers, F Accominotti, T Burchardt, K Hecht… - Social Justice …, 2022 - Springer
In most contemporary societies, people underestimate the extent of economic inequality,
resulting in lower support for taxation and redistribution than might be expressed by better …

Vocational and academic education and political engagement: The importance of the educational institutional structure

HG Van de Werfhorst - Comparative Education Review, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
It is hardly disputed that educational institutions carry responsibility for the education of
democratic citizens through the enhancement of civic and political engagement. Despite the …

Educational policies and income inequality

D Checchi, HG Van de Werfhorst - 2014 - papers.ssrn.com
In this paper we study the associations between educational policies, distributions of
educational attainments and income distributions. By matching inequality measures on test …

How does actual inequality shape people's perceptions of inequality? A class perspective

E Haddon, C Wu - Sociological Perspectives, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
While some scholars suggest that awareness of income inequality is strongest when the
actual level of inequality is high, others find that individuals' awareness of income inequality …

Measuring the strength of trade unions and identifying the privileged groups: A two-dimensional approach and its implementation

RG Koçer - The Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Trade unions were important actors in the advanced capitalist countries until the late 1970s,
but since the 1980s, union membership is declining. Whether this decline has been …

A new approach to the evaluation of countries' educational structure and development: the European study

M Dobrota, G Savic, M Bulajic - European Review, 2015 - cambridge.org
The ranking of higher education institutions, as well as the ranking of countries based on
their scientific achievements, draws a significant amount of attention. Nevertheless, the …

[PDF][PDF] Why is public expenditure on education in Japan low?: Re-examining the public function of education

W Nakazawa - 2016 - ir.library.osaka-u.ac.jp
This book was originally published in Japanese by Keiso-shobo in 2014, and won one of the
most prestigious awards for humanities and social sciences for works in Japanese, the 36th …

Reward allocation decision making in Arab-Islamic business organizations: An empirical examination through an emic lens

AA Bachkirov, FM Shamsudin - … Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern …, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate monetary reward allocation decision-
making in an Arab-Islamic business environment. Design/methodology/approach In this …

How class shapes critical resentment toward inequality: The competing forces of stratification and politics

E Haddon - International Journal of Sociology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Some scholars see class as increasingly irrelevant in shaping opinions toward inequality,
while others maintain that it endures. However, what is often problematic with research in …

The challenge of globalisation: A world-wide investigation of public attitudes on individual vs. government responsibility

IØ Heggem, TG Jakobsen - World Review of …, 2016 - inderscienceonline.com
In this article we explore the link between economic globalisation and individual attitudes
toward government responsibility for provision of its citizens. Two opposing views on the …