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Title:The Educational System, Wage and Salary Structures, and Income Distribution: Lesotho as a Case Study, Circa 1975
Author:Cobbe, James H.
Year:1983
Periodical:Journal of Developing Areas
Volume:17
Issue:2
Pages:227-242
Language:English
Geographic term:Lesotho
Subjects:wages
educational policy
educational financing
Labor and Employment
Economics and Trade
Education and Oral Traditions
External links:https://www.jstor.org/stable/4191120
http://search.proquest.com/pao/docview/1311665439
Abstract:The educational system does not display ex post equality of opportunity, and it is serving to reproduce inequalities from one generation to the next. This paper spells out in detail the mechanisms of this general process in a particular country, namely Lesotho in the mid-1970s, which provides a useful case study because of the extreme nature of the labour market side of the process. It deals with the nature of the labour market and the links between educational attainments and initial wage and salary levels; the cost and enrollment structures of the formal educational system; and the socioeconomic origins of university students compared to the population as a whole. At the end the author discusses the implications of these data for income distribution and provides some suggestions about possible policy changes. Notes, tab.
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