Inequality of opportunity in secondary school enrolment in Italy, Germany and the Netherlands

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 441-464

  Contini, Dalit ^a   Scagni, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Access restrictions; Inequality of opportunity; Logistic regression; School tracks; Unobserved heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650511144     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-009-9307-y     Document Type: Article

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