Education and Income Inequality: New Evidence from Cross-Country Data.
This paper presents empirical evidence on how education is related to income distribution in a panel data set covering a broad range of countries for the period between 1960 and 1990. The findings indicate that educational factors--higher educational attainment and more equal distribution of education--play a significant role in making income distribution more equal. The results also confirm the Kuznets inverted-U curve for the relationship between income level and income inequality. We also find that government social expenditure contributes to more equal distribution of income. However, a significant proportion of cross-country variation in income inequality remains unexplained. Copyright 2002 by The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth.
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2002
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Authors: | De Gregorio, Jose ; Lee, Jong-Wha |
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Review of Income and Wealth. - International Association for Research in Income and Wealth - IARIW. - Vol. 48.2002, 3, p. 395-416
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International Association for Research in Income and Wealth - IARIW |
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