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Ghignoni, Emanuela – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
This paper analyses the impact of informal recruitment channels on university enrolment decisions. A widespread diffusion of personal connections as an entry channel to the labour market may signal that social ties to well-off people are necessary to get a good job, thereby convincing students from poorly connected families that getting a tertiary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Bound Students, College Freshmen, Student Recruitment
Vergolini, Loris; Vlach, Eleonora – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
In this paper, we analyse social inequalities along the horizontal dimension of education in Italy. More precisely, we focus on the role of family background in completing specific fields of study at both secondary and tertiary levels of education. To mitigate the limitations of the traditional sequential model, we construct a typology of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Characteristics, College Graduates, High Schools