OBJECTIVE To investigate the relation between income inequality and life expectancy in Italy and across wealthy nations. DESIGN AND SETTING Measure correlation between income inequality and life expectancy at birth within Italy and across the top 21 wealthy countries. Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated to study these relations. Multivariate linear regression was used to measure ...

The recent statistics indicates child marriage has been a global concern especially in low and medium countries, so that more than 700 million of women were married before 18 years of age and out of them more than a third were less than 15 years. There is gender inequality in child marriage, so that it is more observed in girls (1). Some causes are introduced for incidence of child marriage inc...

Abstract On the basis of EGOS 2021 sub-plenary on ‘Professions and Inequality: Challenges, Controversies, Opportunities’, presenters panellists wrote four short essays relationship between inequality as a grand challenge professional occupations organizations, their structures, practices, strategies. Individually, these take an inquisitorial stance extant understandings (1) how professions may ...

The UK government has expressed a desire to increase social mobility, with policies to help achieve this aim focused on reducing inequalities in educational attainment. This paper draws together established and new information about the contribution that higher education can make to social mobility using a life-course approach, considering differences by family background in terms of university...

This paper tries to examine the effects of Internet on educational opportunity. Internet, as the most useful technology of modern times which helps us not only in our daily lives but also in professional lives. For educational purposes, it is widely used to gather information and to do research or add to the knowledge of various subjects.  The theoretical framework considered with some theories...

Family background characteristics and educational resources are crucial in shaping individuals’ income therefore a potential source of inequality opportunity. This article analyses inequalities the Spanish diverse regions using data from European Survey Income Living Conditions (EU-SILC). Along this we analyse relevance family opportunities as well role education plays inequality. Our findings ...