Education and Income Distribution in Asia - A Study Prepared for the International Labour Office...

First published in 1981, Education and Income Distribution in Asia looks in detail at a number of aspects of the relation between education, employment, and income. It contains case studies from Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

List of contents

Preface Introduction 1. Equality in Education 2. Schooling, Earnings and Occupation 3. Educational Expansion and the Labour Market 4. International Comparisons I (General Pattern of Inequality) 5. International Comparisons I (Thinking Ability of Children of Labourers and of Executives and Professionals) 6. Determinants of Educational Achievement in the Philippines 7. School Enrolment in India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand 8. Educational Innovations and Inequality 9. Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations Index

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P. Richards and M. Leonor

Summary

First published in 1981, Education and Income Distribution in Asia looks in detail at a number of aspects of the relation between education, employment, and income. It contains case studies from Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

Product details

• Authors: M. Leonor, P. Richards, P. Leonor Richards, Richards P.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781032321899
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3232189-9
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; EDUCATION / General, Asia, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Economic theory & philosophy, Political Economy, Monetary Economics, Philosophy and theory of education, Educational strategies and policy