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Inequality and Segregation

In: The Economics of Schooling in a Divided Society

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  • Vani K. Borooah

    (Ulster University)

  • Colin Knox

    (Ulster University)

Abstract

In this chapter, we analyse issues of inequality and segregation. We begin with ‘performance inequality’, first between grammar schools and secondary schools and, second, between secondary schools only. In conducting this analysis, two methods are used to quantify the nature of such inequalities. The first is that of inequality decomposition whereby overall inequality is expressed as the sum of ‘between group’ and ‘within group’ inequality. This technique is applied to grammar/secondary inequality so that inequality in educational performance between the 205 post-primary schools in Northern Ireland can be decomposed as the sum of inequality between grammar and secondary schools and within grammar and secondary schools. The intellectual foundations for this decomposition lie in Theil (1967), Shorrocks (1980), and Cowell and Jenkins (1995).

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  • Vani K. Borooah & Colin Knox, 2015. "Inequality and Segregation," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Economics of Schooling in a Divided Society, chapter 5, pages 84-115, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-46187-2_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137461872_5
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