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Impacts of social economic status on higher education opportunity and graduate employment in China

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Based on a nation-wide survey of higher education graduates, this paper analyzes the impact of family background, using paternal occupation and education as indicators, on their scores in the National College Entrance Examination, the level and type of higher education institutions they attend, their employment after graduation, and the income they receive from their first job. It has been found that there are wide disparities among students with different family backgrounds in both access to higher education and their potential employment in China nowadays. This paper also studies how those influences happen.

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  1. Graduate School of Education/Institute of Educational Economics Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Wen Dong-mao

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Translated from Peking University Education Review, 2005 July (3)

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Wen, Dm. Impacts of social economic status on higher education opportunity and graduate employment in China. Front. Educ. China 1, 426–438 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-006-0019-y

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