The Impact of Socioeconomic Status and Social Exclusion in Higher Education

Název práce: The Impact of Socioeconomic Status and Social Exclusion in Higher Education
Autor(ka) práce: Ryckenberg, Samuel
Typ práce: Diploma thesis
Vedoucí práce: Vltavská, Kristýna
Oponenti práce: Zelený, Martin
Jazyk práce: English
Abstrakt:
The purpose of this thesis is to gain a deeper understanding of socioeconomic statusimpact in higher education and how social exclusion in higher education may be reduced. Itaims to answer which socioeconomic variables that impact a person’s decision to pursue ahigher education. The thesis also discusses how social exclusion in higher education can bereduced. The thesis practical analysis is based on data from the EU-Statistics on Income andLiving Conditions. Three countries are included in the analysis; the Czech Republic, Swedenand the United Kingdom. The main statistical methods used in the thesis are the independentsamples t-test, the Mann Whitney U test and binary logistic regression. The results obtained bythe thesis are discussed and compared to previous research conducted within the same studyfield.
Klíčová slova: EU-SILC; higher education; inequality; social exclusion; binary logistic regression; socioeconomic status; tertiary education; university education
Název práce: The Impact of Socioeconomic Status and Social Exclusion in Higher Education
Autor(ka) práce: Ryckenberg, Samuel
Typ práce: Diplomová práce
Vedoucí práce: Vltavská, Kristýna
Oponenti práce: Zelený, Martin
Jazyk práce: English
Abstrakt:
The purpose of this thesis is to gain a deeper understanding of socioeconomic statusimpact in higher education and how social exclusion in higher education may be reduced. Itaims to answer which socioeconomic variables that impact a person’s decision to pursue ahigher education. The thesis also discusses how social exclusion in higher education can bereduced. The thesis practical analysis is based on data from the EU-Statistics on Income andLiving Conditions. Three countries are included in the analysis; the Czech Republic, Swedenand the United Kingdom. The main statistical methods used in the thesis are the independentsamples t-test, the Mann Whitney U test and binary logistic regression. The results obtained bythe thesis are discussed and compared to previous research conducted within the same studyfield.
Klíčová slova: EU-SILC; binary logistic regression; higher education; inequality; social exclusion; socioeconomic status; tertiary education; university education

Informace o studiu

Studijní program / obor: Kvantitativní metody v ekonomice/Quantitative Economic Analysis
Typ studijního programu: Magisterský studijní program
Přidělovaná hodnost: Ing.
Instituce přidělující hodnost: Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze
Fakulta: Fakulta informatiky a statistiky
Katedra: Katedra ekonomické statistiky

Informace o odevzdání a obhajobě

Datum zadání práce: 12. 10. 2017
Datum podání práce: 5. 5. 2018
Datum obhajoby: 11. 6. 2018
Identifikátor v systému InSIS: https://insis.vse.cz/zp/63477/podrobnosti

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