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Cavanagh, Matthew. "Equality and opportunity." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324550.
Full textCousin, Glynis. "Theorising equality of opportunity." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1995. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4330/.
Full textSapata, Christelle. "Essays on Equality of Opportunity." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/107956.
Full textThe theory of equality of opportunity leads to legitimate some inequalities: inequalities due to factors for which the individual can be held responsible are fair. On the contrary, when inequalities are due to factors that are beyond individual's responsibility, these inequalities are unfair and should be removed. Even though a consensus emerges about the cut between fair and unfair inequalities, distinct measurement strategies have emerged and may lead to distinct conclusions. In this thesis, we study three aspects concerning the measurement of equality of opportunity to assess the impact of the techniques used on the conclusions about unfair inequalities. To measure inequality of opportunity, we can (1) measure the impact of one or several non-responsibility factors on individuals' outcomes, (2) account or not for the indirect impact of non-responsibility factors on responsibility factors and (3) move the cut that separates both types of factors. The first chapter investigates to which extent the magnitude of inequality of opportunity is sensitive to the change in one of these three decisions. We perform the analysis for Spain and find that the magnitude of ex-ante inequality of opportunity is sensitive to the inclusion of several non-responsibility factors. Family background is found to explain inequalities in income, but other non-responsibility variables such as country of birth are also found to be important determinants of inequalities. The indirect effect of non-responsibility factors is found to be of main importance as it explains around half the overall inequality of opportunity. Finally, the cut between responsibility and non-responsibility factors is not found to be of main impact as the variables that are obviously beyond individuals' responsibility are the ones that impact the most on inequality. The second chapter addresses two questions: Is effort equally rewarded across regions of France and is ex-post inequality of opportunity distributed in the same way as income? To this end, we estimate a wage equation as a function of circumstance and effort variables. We calculate the fair income which is the income that depends on effort only and we take the distance between the actual earnings and the fair income to obtain a measure of ex-post inequality of opportunity. We exhibit the presence of inequality of opportunity in all the regions of France and the way responsibility factors are rewarded differ across regions. On the other hand, the rankings of the regions in terms of equality of opportunity and inequality in income change slightly, which is consistent with other studies on the correlation between income inequality and inequality of opportunity. In the third chapter, we assume individuals have heterogeneous preferences on consumption and leisure. In this case, the criteria of equality of opportunity have to be adapted as proposed by Fleurbaey and Maniquet. Our aim is to propose a model to apply these criteria and make them comparable with cardinal criteria. To this end, we start from a model that identifies groups' preferences and we make use of information on individuals' choices to approximate individuals' preferences. We also propose two ways of cardinalizing our measure such as to compare our results with two cardinal criteria. We show very little matching among the criteria. The target of redistribution policy changes as we move from the egalitarian equivalence criterion to the conditional equality criterion. Then, we find strong similarities between Van de gaer's criterion and the conditional equality criterion. Roemer's criterion appears to give very distinct conclusions with respect to the other three criteria. To conclude, the difference in the results given by each criterion shows that the strategies of measurement are at least as important as the criterion used.
Voorhoeve, Alexander Edmund. "Equal opportunity, equality, and responsibility." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2006. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1446749/.
Full textPIGNATARO, GIUSEPPE. "Essays on Equality of opportunity." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/363.
Full textThe economic literature on equality of opportunity suggests non-welfarist foundations of social choice introducing the concepts of freedoms and liberties of individuals in the assessment of social welfare. The opportunity egalitarian principle does not focus on equality of outcomes but essentially on equality of means to realize those outcomes, i.e., it places some responsibilities on individuals to decide how much effort to pay in order to exploit the opportunity offered to them. This concept refers to be a part of conventional wisdom and has a long tradition and wide acceptance. On these grounds chapter 1 is devoted to a review of the most recent research on equality of opportunity. Some economists and political philosophers have argued that, in examining distributional questions, instead of focusing on differences in observed incomes or current levels of welfare, it is more appropriate to focus on the choice or opportunity sets that individuals face. Chapter 2 focus on the measurement of the degree of equality of opportunity based on alternative decompositions of the Atkinson index of equality according to welfare theory approach. In chapter 3 we address a measurement in health using data from the British Household Panel Survey (1996-2005). Our results suggest a great incidence of the direct effect of the individual behaviors in terms of lifestyles reducing the indirect contribution of social background. Public health programs are more likely to produce results if targeted on individual responsibility. A different point at issue is tackled in chapter 4 where we introduce the relationship between equality of opportunity and efficiency in the credit market. We show that richer individuals participate more in the credit market even when relatively more averse to effort violating the equality of opportunity principle. Moreover, we find that marginal richer borrowers exert less effort than poorer ones in equilibrium. Empirical evidence in Italy points to a limited impact of policy measures aimed at increasing credit opportunities without targeting accurately the beneficiaries.
PIGNATARO, GIUSEPPE. "Essays on Equality of opportunity." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/363.
Full textThe economic literature on equality of opportunity suggests non-welfarist foundations of social choice introducing the concepts of freedoms and liberties of individuals in the assessment of social welfare. The opportunity egalitarian principle does not focus on equality of outcomes but essentially on equality of means to realize those outcomes, i.e., it places some responsibilities on individuals to decide how much effort to pay in order to exploit the opportunity offered to them. This concept refers to be a part of conventional wisdom and has a long tradition and wide acceptance. On these grounds chapter 1 is devoted to a review of the most recent research on equality of opportunity. Some economists and political philosophers have argued that, in examining distributional questions, instead of focusing on differences in observed incomes or current levels of welfare, it is more appropriate to focus on the choice or opportunity sets that individuals face. Chapter 2 focus on the measurement of the degree of equality of opportunity based on alternative decompositions of the Atkinson index of equality according to welfare theory approach. In chapter 3 we address a measurement in health using data from the British Household Panel Survey (1996-2005). Our results suggest a great incidence of the direct effect of the individual behaviors in terms of lifestyles reducing the indirect contribution of social background. Public health programs are more likely to produce results if targeted on individual responsibility. A different point at issue is tackled in chapter 4 where we introduce the relationship between equality of opportunity and efficiency in the credit market. We show that richer individuals participate more in the credit market even when relatively more averse to effort violating the equality of opportunity principle. Moreover, we find that marginal richer borrowers exert less effort than poorer ones in equilibrium. Empirical evidence in Italy points to a limited impact of policy measures aimed at increasing credit opportunities without targeting accurately the beneficiaries.
Nilsson, William. "Equality of opportunity, heterogeneity and poverty." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Umeå University, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-518.
Full textLazenby, Hugh T. C. "A conception of equality of opportunity." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9aa71505-3263-429d-bbb7-8f5bd5e06625.
Full textSalas, Gonzalo. "Essays on equality of opportunity and public policy." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/400568.
Full textThis thesis is structured around the notion of equal opportunities, a concept first proposed by Arneson (1989), whose philosophical foundations are deeply influenced by the proposals of Rawls (1971). From this perspective there is no justification for the existence of differentiating circumstances arising from luck or natural endowment, while everything which is under the control of the person is the responsibility of the individual and society should not concern itself with establishing compensatory mechanisms. In this sense, Roemer (1998) notes that public policy should be responsible for leveling the playing field by equaling the opportunities and starting conditions of the people in order to be able to access an advantage. In the different chapters of this thesis I aim to contribute to different areas of this field by providing empirical evidence for the case of Uruguay. I focus on the link between equality of opportunities and public policy. The public policies that are analyzed put a focus on education, explicitly in some cases and indirectly in others. I consider an income transfer program, the Plan de Atención Nacional a la Emergencia Social (PANES), and a policy oriented to early childhood based on increasing places in public schools. In the literature reviewed the studies that casually link targeted public policies with inequality of opportunities are scarce (Ham, 2010; Van der gaer, 2011), with a greater number of studies focusing on analyzing the impact of policies oriented to early childhood (for example, Baker et al, 2008; Urzúa & Veramendi, 2011; Conti & Heckman, 2012; Felfe & Lalive, 2014). In the latter case there is less emphasis on the effects on equality of opportunities, so it is not possible to attribute responsibility to the children for their performance. However, in Andreoli, Havnes & Lefranc (2014) an effort was made to link the literature based on equality of opportunities and the expansion of public schools aimed at early childhood. The remaining chapter focuses on the study of preferences for redistributive policies considering different normative approaches that have been used to measure equality of opportunity. There are also several papers that have attempted to understand the role played by the perceptions of fairness of individuals in the aforementioned preferences (Fong, 2001; Alesina and Angeletos, 2005; Alesina and Giuliano, 2009). I attempt to link these two areas, which have a string subjective element, with greater precision. Specifically, I study the extent to which preferences for redistribution may be determined by heterogeneous individual perceptions about inequality of opportunity. Particular emphasis is placed on the theoretical arguments underlying the idea that perceptions of fairness influence the utility of individuals, where they see their preferences for redistribution reflected. Unlike the chapters which precede it, and which focus on explanations based on the altruism of people, in this chapter the argument shifts towards the reciprocity generated by the interaction among individuals. This last element associates the role played by the sense of fairness with the identity of the people (Akerlof and Kranton, 2010), and is therefore formed from the interaction with the peer group.
Short, Myriah J. "Equality of Opportunity: Equal Access to Higher Education." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1229624814.
Full textAsadullah, Mohammad Niaz. "Equality of educational opportunity and public policy in Bangladesh." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.418837.
Full textWu, Yi. "The equality of educational opportunity in Chinese higher education." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/4884.
Full textDesde 1998, o governo chinês tem vindo a introduzir reformas no ensino superior: o número de estudantes tem aumentado, assim como o valor das propinas. O objectivo deste estudo é abordar a diferença de igualdade educacional entre as áreas urbanas e rurais desde 1998 até hoje. Esta tese irá debruçar-se sobre se a reforma do ensino superior acentuará a diferença existente entre as áreas urbanas e rurais, zonas desenvolvidas e subdesenvolvidas na China. Primeiramente, esta tese demonstrará as diferentes oportunidades de acesso no sistema educacional chinês no ensino superior. Alguns documentos estatísticos serão abordados para discutir as diferentes oportunidades no ensino superior entre áreas urbanas e rurais na capital Pequim e em toda a China. Seguidamente, este estudo debruçar-se-á sobre as possíveis causas que determinam a diferença de oportunidades no ensino superior chinês. Irá também fornecer visões pessoais acerca da influência da reforma do ensino superior, incidindo sobre a evolução das desigualdades entre áreas urbanas e rurais. Posteriormente, esta tese conclui que a reforma no ensino superior chinês influencia tanto os estudantes de áreas rurais como de urbanas. Apesar de a reforma ter aspectos positivos, esta aumenta a diferença e desigualdade de oportunidades entre as zonas urbanas e rurais no ensino superior.
Since 1998, Chinese government has launched reform on higher education: rapid enrolment expansion and increasing tuition. The purpose of this study is to present the gaps of educational equality between urban and rural areas after 1998. This thesis will discuss if the higher education reform enlarge the existing gap between urban and rural areas, and developed and less-developed areas in China. First of all, this thesis will give the demonstration of entrance opportunity on Chinese higher education. Some statistical description will be used to discuss the difference of higher educational opportunity between urban and rural areas in capital Beijing and whole China. Secondly, the thesis will discuss some reasons from some different facets that cause the opportunity difference in Chinese higher education. And also will give some personal ideas on the influence of higher education reform, especially influence of difference between urban and rural areas. In conclusion, the study finds that Chinese higher education reform influencing both urban students and rural students. Although the reform has some positive factors, it enlarges the gap and inequality of opportunity between urban and rural areas on higher education.
Beck, Sharon Marcia. "Impact of vocational qualifications on the employment process, equality of opportunity and opportunity in Europe." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.506145.
Full textHill, James. "Democratic Equality and Responsibility: the Opportunity Costs of Primary Goods." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/743.
Full textYoung, Yih-Jin. "Modernization and equality of educational opportunity in Thailand : 1970-1990 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8929.
Full textHayes, Ali. "Multiculturalism in Australia: Enhancing social harmony and equality of opportunity." Thesis, Hayes, Ali (2013) Multiculturalism in Australia: Enhancing social harmony and equality of opportunity. Masters by Coursework thesis, Murdoch University, 2013. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/16694/.
Full textGarcelon, Janelle. "Fair Equality of Opportunity: Reconceiving Affirmative Action through a Rawlsian Lens." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1046.
Full textDiez-Amigo, Sandro. "Essays on equality of opportunity and the access to higher education." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/93808.
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This dissertation examines the question of how to improve the access to higher education for students from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, in order to promote equality of opportunity. In order to do so, experimental evaluation methodology is used to address relevant research questions and draw actionable policy lessons in the context of the Chilean higher education system. The first chapter of this dissertation studies the impact of college peers on academic performance with the help of a natural experiment in Chile, which allows for exogenous classroom composition. In particular, first year students at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, one of the leading Chilean universities, are randomly assigned to their first semester college class groups. I take advantage of this feature in order to robustly estimate the impact of peer characteristics on undergraduate academic performance. The research hypothesis is that being assigned as a freshman to a group with more or less students from a same school, or from a given socioeconomic background, may result in very different patterns of adaptation, potentially impacting academic performance. Significant evidence is found that suggests that, contrary to the results found in most of the existing literature, the average college admission score of first semester classmates not only has no positive impact on the academic performance of undergraduate students, but may actually be negatively affecting their grades. Also, although there are some differences across degrees and secondary school types, in general undergraduate students are more likely to be dismissed, and have lower grades, when they share their first semester college class with a secondary schoolmate. Moreover, students assigned to first semester college classrooms with a higher concentration of classmates who attended the same secondary school(s) generally have significantly lower grades, and are less likely to graduate. Finally, students sharing their first semester college classroom with students from public or subsidized secondary schools are more likely to be dismissed due to poor academic performance. The fact that these peer effects are persistent In time points to the existence of a path dependence pattern, suggesting that this initial period in college is key for student adaptation. These findings have important implications for the design of policies intended to improve the adaptation of freshman college students and the access to higher education, suggesting that students would benefit from targeted first semester college class group assignment policies, as well as from additional transitional aid tailored to their profiles. The second chapter addresses the question of how to distinguish "knowledge" from "ability", in the context of improving the access to higher education. In particular, according to the existing evidence some higher education admission tests may be screening out students who, despite a relative lack of specific knowledge, possess as much intellectual ability as their peers. If this is the case, students from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds are likely to be disproportionately affected, since they generally receive a primary and secondary education of worse quality than their better-off peers, often resulting in significant knowledge gaps. Also, although in some cases these formative shortcomings might be too large to be feasibly addressed at the time of enrollment in higher education, it is plausible to think that in some cases they may perhaps be relatively easy to remedy. In view of all this, in this chapter I present a diagnostics experiment, aimed at helping to better understand this issue. In particular, I custom-designed a multiple-choice test, intended to measure an individual's mathematical ability, while minimizing the reliance on previously acquired knowledge. Also, I put together a two page "cheat sheet", which outlined all the necessary concepts to successfully complete the exam, without providing any explicit answers. This test was subsequently used to evaluate the candidates applying for admission into a special access program at one of the leading Chilean universities. A staged randomized control trial was used to measure the difference in academic performance (i.e. number of correctly answered questions) across the three parts of the exam between students who received a "cheat sheet" after the first or second parts of the test, respectively. As expected, "cheat sheets" improved the average performance of candidates on the exam, but their impact varied considerably across individuals. Most importantly, "cheat sheets" proved significantly more beneficial (in terms of improved test performance) to those students who were more likely to have had a secondary education of lower quality. This result has important implications for educational policies in Chile and elsewhere, suggesting that a transition to ability-focused admission tests would facilitate the access to higher education for talented students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The third and final chapter of this dissertation presents a higher education special access program for students from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, custom-designed by the author for one of the leading Chilean universities, and implemented as a pilot during the 2013 and 2014 admission periods. A non-experimental comparison of the academic performance of special and ordinary admission students after enrollment finds evidence that, consistent with Arcidiacono et al (2011), although on average special admission students have comparable final grades than their ordinary admission peers, they tend to perform comparatively worse in "hard" subjects (i.e. those with a strong mathematical component). However, although special admission students seem more likely to decide to withdraw earlier, no significant differences in voluntary withdrawal or dismissal rates are observed between the latter and their ordinary admission peers. Moreover, an initial gap in GPA between special and ordinary admission students is closed by the end of the third semester of enrollment. All this suggests that, with some nuances, students from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds can successfully catch up with their peers when provided with adequate support, and that special admission programs can therefore be an effective tool to improve the access to higher education. Nonetheless, the fact that the program was undersubscribed suggests that, apart from potential information diffusion problems, the minimum requirements set forth for special admission may have been too stringent, and/or that the demand for special admission among the targeted student population may not be as large as predicted.
by Sandro Diez-Amigo.
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Miller, Jacinta. "Equality of opportunity : the pathway to justiciability of the right to health?" Thesis, University of Ulster, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496496.
Full textPettersson, Måns. "The Structure of Socialist Equality of Opportunity : G.A. Cohen's Socialism: A Defense." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-105640.
Full textCalvert, John Sinclair. "Luck egalitarianism and educational equality." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Educational Studies and Leadership, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10438.
Full textMullan, Deirdre. "#The feminization of poverty' : education - the inequality of access and opportunity." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242010.
Full textClayton, Matthew. "Educating liberals : an argument about political neutrality, equality of opportunity, and parental autonomy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389185.
Full textau, marnev@cygnus uwa edu, and Neville James Green. "Access, equality and opportunity? : the education of Aboriginal children in Western Australia 1840-1978." Murdoch University, 2004. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20071218.141027.
Full textLu, Xiaoyan. "Survey and experimental methods to group decisions : equality of opportunity and weighted majority voting." Thesis, Aix-Marseille 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011AIX24025.
Full textDecision making in groups largely exists in almost every aspect of daily life. In this thesis, we use survey and experimental methods to examine decision making in two different areas, equality of opportunity (EOP) and weighted majority voting (WMV). The goal of the research efforts is to understand the importance of achieved decisions for the functioning of the group, involving taking into account the needs and opinions of every group member.In the survey study of EOP, we used the attitude survey consisting of vignettes to elicit stated preferences of quasi-spectators over the conceptions of EOP problems. Impartiality in this study is achieved by considering only evaluations of individuals who have no stake in the situation they are judging. We analysed whether individuals are considered to be held responsible for outcomes by different factors: circumstances, effort, talent, brute luck and option luck. Apart from the baseline treatment, another compared treatment was designed to test context effect, with the introduction of ``need'' and social-cognitive age. In these two treatments, we found a high level of consensus on non-responsibility of circumstances, slight consensuses to responsibility of effort but non-responsibility of brute luck, and no agreement on talent and option luck. When other considerations are not involved, inequality caused by differential option luck and talent is unobjectionable. While with other considerations, people should not fully be held responsible for the outcomes resulting from option luck and talent.We then tested revealed preferences over the conceptions of EOP problems in an experiment, where subjects were stakeholders of each decision. People were recruited to form a micro society, and engaged in actual decisions about redistribution of their own money they earned in a previous phase through four factors: circumstances, effort, brute and option luck. Yet despite a lot of self-interested behaviours when participants have a stake in the redistribution, we clearly observe that participants are sensitive to the different factors through which people can earn their money. There were three treatments in our experiment: the baseline, prior reflection and talent treatments. The voting results among three treatments are very homogeneous, with only one exception on effort in the talent treatment, and present a very high level of self-serving bias.For WMV, the survey study investigates whether people have the knowledge of the relation between the number of votes and corresponding power which they have in a committee that takes decisions with a WMV system. Power indices show that actual voting power is often quite different from the nominal distribution of voting weights. Our survey observed that subjects cannot see through the non-monotonic relationship between the number of votes and voting power. In addition, we found that subjects trained in political sciences had more acquaintance on this issue.The experiment on WMV wanted to see whether people could learn this non-monotonic relation between the number of votes and the actual voting power. In the laboratory experiment, people played similar games 20 times. The first stage of games was the votes apportionment stage, where two out of four subjects in a group independently and simultaneously made decisions to determine the distribution of votes among four members. The second stage of games was the point allocation stage, where four member bargained to divide fixed amount of resources among themselves through the WMV determined in the first stage. The results of our experiments show that initially subjects tend to choose an option that gives them more votes ignoring how remaining votes are distributed among others. But, as subjects ``learn'' about the payoffs they can obtain in the points allocation stage, they start to choose the option in the first stage that could have chance to give them higher payoffs
Green, Neville J. "Access, equality and opportunity? The education of Aboriginal children in Western Australia 1840-1978." Thesis, Green, Neville, J. (2004) Access, equality and opportunity? The education of Aboriginal children in Western Australia 1840-1978. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2004. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/51383/.
Full textChen, Yangguang. "The negotiation of equality of opportunity for emergent bilingual children in the English mainstream classroom." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410019.
Full textWillie, Charles. "Equality of opportunity for racial minorities in the UK Civil Service : the impact of organisational culture." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2007. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55649/.
Full textReinstaller, Andreas, and Bulat Sanditov. "Social norms and equality of opportunity in conspicuous consumption. On the diffusion of consumer good innovation." Inst. für Volkswirtschaftstheorie und -politik, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2003. http://epub.wu.ac.at/1676/1/document.pdf.
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Kim, Heewon. "United Progressive Alliance (2004-14), equality of opportunity and Muslims : a paradigm shift or political pragmatism?" Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2015. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/20395/.
Full textOkada, Akito. "Equality of opportunity in post-war England and Japan : a comparative study of educational policy, 1944-1970." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244244.
Full textTripp, Norman Wayne. "Chauncey Depew Harmon, Senior: a case study in leadership for educational opportunity and equality in Pulaski, Virginia." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40002.
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Tripp, N. Wayne. "Chauncey Depew Harmon, Senior : a case study in leadership for educational opportunity and equality in Pulaski, Virginia /." This resource online, 1995. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10192006-115611/.
Full textYlonen, Annamari. "Reinventing the Finnish comprehensive school system through specialisation : reasons, rationales and outcomes for equity and equality of opportunity." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2008. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2174/.
Full textDeGeorge, Bradley Victor. "Equal employment opportunity in a climate of managing diversity : an institutional study of personnel processes of the Pennsylvania State Police /." Diss., This resource online, 1995. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08082007-114523/.
Full textOhlström, Marcus. "Justice and the Prejudices of Culture : On Choice, Social Background and Unequal Opportunities in the Liberal Society." Doctoral thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, SV, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-21804.
Full textLUZZANO, A. M. SALVI DEL PERO DI. "Essays on inequality, discrimination and opportunities for the case of Nepal." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/54058.
Full textSimper, Gerald Richard. "A study of work experience schemes for students in Oxfordshire schools with particular reference to issues of gender equality of opportunity." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.484454.
Full textSmith, Mary Eileen. "Equality of Educational Opportunity for Language Minority Students in Oregon: A Survey of ESL/Bilingual Education Policy in Local School Districts." PDXScholar, 1987. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/382.
Full textTsang, Chiu-chun Leo, and 曾昭俊. "Urban planning for equal opportunity for the blind in Hong Kong: a case study of transportation facilitiesplanning in public mass transits." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31259558.
Full textBaral, Jagadish Chandra, of Western Sydney Nepean University, Faculty of Environmental Management and Agriculture, and School of Agriculture and Rural Development. "Government intervention and local processes in community forestry in the hills of Nepal." THESIS_FEMA_ARD_Baral_J.xml, 1999. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/485.
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Bastani, Spencer, and Daniel Waldenström. "Salience of Inherited Wealth and the Support for Inheritance Taxation." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2019. http://epub.wu.ac.at/7009/1/wp_bastani_waldenstr%C3%B6m.pdf.
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Schoff, Staci Leigh. "Economic Inequality's Correlation with Political Inequality and Inequality of Opportunity and the Implications for Social Justice Theory." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/980.
Full textSanada, Kie. "Symbolic Violence via the Principle of Equality of Opportunity: The mechanism of persisting structure of social inequality in a village community in contemporary Japan." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/18395.
Full textThis doctoral research demonstrates how the structures of social hierarchy of the past have been perpetuated while acquiring different justifications and appearances in a legally justifiable manner. In the first chapter, I demonstrate that the commonly used egalitarian principle in today’s society, namely Fair Equality of Opportunity, hand in hand with meritocracy, functions as a translator of the existing structures of social hierarchy into politically justifiable disparities between individuals. I approach the un-derlying mechanism of persisting inequality by using the theory of symbolic domination proposed by Pierre Bourdieu. He explains that the existence of social inequality is justified because individual social positions are misrecognised as being the direct results of individual achievements via meritocracy. Widespread belief in fair social competition can thus contribute to concealing existing structures of social hierarchy behind the logic of equality and freedom. My thesis is empirically based on a rural fishing village in Japan. The overarching research question is: Is a concept of life as being the direct result of personal achievements internalised and acted upon by individuals to perpetuate the existing structure of social inequality in the society in which they live? My empirical study shows that the families that were powerful during the feudal era now occupy the highest social positions in the community-building project. Furthermore, both the powerful and the marginalised members of the local society accept their social positions in the community as being the direct results of their own individual achievements, without any conscious intention to perpetuate the feudal hierarchy of power. Given these affirmative answers to my research question, hermeneutically, I establish the explanatory power of my theoretical framework.
Tsang, Chiu-chun Leo. "Urban planning for equal opportunity for the blind in Hong Kong : a case study of transportation facilities planning in public mass transits /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19130880.
Full textMacêdo, Luísa da Rocha. "Igualdade de oportunidades : limites inferior e superior nas regiões brasileiras." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/178183.
Full textThe present study seeks to estimate two versions of the upper limit of inequality of opportunities for Brazil and for two large regional groups, the North-Northeast and the Center-South. By calculating this limit in its two versions, we can distinguish the direct and indirect effects of the individual circumstances which were captured in the study, that influence the income of the individuals.
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