The Impact of Socioeconomic Status and Social Exclusion in Higher Education
Název práce: | The Impact of Socioeconomic Status and Social Exclusion in Higher Education |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Datum podání práce: | 5. 5. 2018 |
Datum obhajoby: | 11. 6. 2018 |
Identifikátor v systému InSIS: | https://insis.vse.cz/zp/63477/podrobnosti |