Quelle: Boulder: Westview Pr. (Social inequality series), 1993. XI, 396 S.
Inhalt: Contents: Persisting Barriers: Changes in Educational Opportunities in Thirteen Countries; Making the Grade: Educational Stratification in the United States, 1925-1989; Changes in Educational Opportunities in the Federal Republic of Germany: A Longitudinal Study of Cohorts Born Between 1916 and 1965; Family Background and Educational Attainment in the Netherlands for the 1891-1960 Birth Cohorts; Persisting Inequalities in Sweden; Educational Attainment in a Changing Educational System: The Case of England and Wales; Inequality of Educational Opportunity in Italy; The Lifelong Shadow: Social Origins and Educational Opportunity in Switzerland; Changes in Educational Stratification in Taiwan; Trends in Educational Attainment in Japan; Who Won and Who Lost in a Socialist Redistribution in Czechoslovakia?; Inequalities in Educational Opportunity in Hungary; Educational Inequalities in Postwar Poland; From Peasantry to Proletariat: Changes in the Educational Stratification of Arabs in Israel; Educational Stratification on Observed and Unobserved Components of Family Background.