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    The post-school education choices of young women in Australia and Canada

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    Authors
    Austen, Siobhan
    MacPhail, F.
    Date
    2011
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Austen, Siobhan and MacPhail, Fiona. 2011. The post-school education choices of young women in Australia and Canada. The Economic and Labour Relations Review. 22 (3): pp. 141-158.
    Source Title
    The Economic and Labour Relations Review
    Additional URLs
    http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=593902621307753;res=IELBUS
    ISSN
    1035-3046
    School
    School of Economics and Finance
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10696
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Young Canadian women engage in post-school study at a much higher rate than their Australian peers, with a large part of the difference in this rate attributable to differences in rates of participation in the non-university sector. This article uses data from the Australian Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth and the Canadian Youth in Transition Survey to generate a unique cross-country comparison of the characteristics of young women engaged in different types of post-school education. The results highlight important differences in the role played by academic ability and parental resources in the allocation of educational ‘slots’ in the non-university sectors of the two countries. The results suggest that ‘second-tier’ post-school institutions could play a role in boosting rates of post-school education in Australia, with important consequences for the design of policy on this sector.

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