The effects of the Chinese Cultural Revolution upon citizens' postrevolution educational attainment are explored; additional attention is dedicated to examining whether level of educational ...achievement prior to the revolution affected citizens' prospects for obtaining a postsecondary degree. Overviews of the Chinese Cultural Revolution & its sociodemographic consequences are presented. Data from the 1988 Urban Income Distribution Survey & the 1995 Shanghai Residents and Floating Population Survey is analyzed to determine the revolution's impact upon citizens' educational achievement. Several findings are shared: individuals enrolled in secondary education when the Cultural Revolution commenced experienced the greatest reductions in postsecondary degree attainment; educational interruption increased people's prospects of obtaining a semi-degree; missing years of secondary education had a stronger impact on people's failure to attain a postsecondary degree than experiencing delays in entering postsecondary institutions; & students whose parents had low educational achievement & occupational standing suffered the greatest negative effects from the interruption. 6 Tables, 3 Figures, 1 Appendix. J. W. Parker
Research on poverty and inequality is dominated by cross‐section studies that are useful but disguise change over time. Investigation of change requires longitudinal data, which are relatively rare ...and expensive. This paper researches wealth mobility in a national sample of 4,255 households monitored in the National Longitudinal Surveys of Older Men and of Mature Women from the mid‐1960s to the mid‐1970s. Our measure of wealth is net family assets, excluding automobiles. We present descriptive measures and estimate econometric models of mobility, including persistence in the lower and the upper end of the wealth distribution, and movement into the upper and the lower end of the wealth distribution. The results place inequality measures in perspective and shed light on mechanisms that influence household wealth mobility. The gainers were farmers and those with skilled jobs or high levels of education, while groups that fell behind included single people, blacks, and families disrupted by divorce or death of a spouse.
Cronología cultural y comunicativa de los años 1966-1979 en Cataluña, precedida de una introducción que traza una muy breve visión evolutiva del pueblo catalán des de la segunda república de 1931 ...hasta la década de los setenta del siglo XX. También se muestra como el paso hacia la democracia política va precedida y és propiciada por una actuación colectiva y personalizada consistente en conseguir la libertad sin pedir permiso, iniciada hacia 1966. Y pone de manifiesto que papel puede jugar la memoria en la reconstrucción de este pasado.
Theoretical models suggest that market structure may influence the magnitude of earnings differentials and/or discrimination observed in the marketplace. Empirical results, with regard to wage ...differentials and labor force participation patterns, have been mixed. Most wage differential studies have focused on males due to difficulty in obtaining reliable data for women and to the sample selection problem of women's labor force participation decisions. This paper characterizes market structure by four categories: regulated, nonprofit, government, and nonregulated industries. Within these structural categories, earnings differentials are examined for men and women, adjusting for race, occupational stratification, and sample selection bias.
Using Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Men, the author of this paper examines the relationship between predicted future earnings for five broad fields of study and college ...students' choice of major. Conditional logit models of major choice that incorporate alternative predicted earnings variables are specified and estimated. The results indicate that, holding family background characteristics constant, individuals are likely to choose majors offering greater streams of future earnings rather than, as some have argued, majors with higher beginning earnings at the time of the choice. It is also found that earnings profiles corrected for self-selection bias have flattened for more recent graduates in business, liberal arts, and education. The life-cycle earnings in these disciplines appear to be more severely depressed than those in science and engineering.
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