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endowments of the factors that complement the schooling process. The paper explores the relationship between inequality of … opportunities, inequality of outcomes, and efficiency in human capital formation. Using numerical solutions we study how the …-preserving spread and a change in the support. The results suggest that a higher degree of inequality of opportunities is associated …
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endowments of the factors that complement the schooling process. The paper explores the relationship between inequality of … opportunities, inequality of outcomes, and aggregate efficiency in human capital formation. Using numerical solutions we study how … meanpreserving spread and a change in the support. The results suggest that a higher degree of inequality of opportunities is …
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endowments of the factors that complement the schooling process. The paper explores the relationship between inequality of … opportunities, inequality of outcomes, and aggregate efficiency in human capital formation. Using numerical solutions we study how … meanpreserving spread and a change in the support. The results suggest that a higher degree of inequality of opportunities is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005597704
We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....
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What sparked humanity's leap from stagnation to prosperity? What lies at the core of inequality among nations? Unified … of change that have governed the journey of humanity, driven the growth process, and shaped inequality across the globe … stagnation; and (ii) The Mystery of Inequality - the roots of the vast inequality in the wealth of nations. The theory suggests …
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What sparked humanity’s leap from stagnation to prosperity? What lies at the core of inequality among nations? Unified … of change that have governed the journey of humanity, driven the growth process, and shaped inequality across the globe … stagnation; and (ii) The Mystery of Inequality—the roots of the vast inequality in the wealth of nations. The theory suggests …
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rising average attendance, while inequality in completion rates or schooling years increases with rising completion rates or … initial inequality in education. At the regional level, educational progress was generally more pro-poor in Asia and Latin … America, while in Africa the experience is very heterogeneous. While gender inequality has decreased slightly, large …
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of worker. Our analysis reveals that the effects of a liberalization on human capital accumulation, income and inequality … 20 percent in the shortrun, and by more than 55 percent after 50 years. The world average index of inequality decreases … identifying assumptions. We also analyze partial liberalization shocks: efficiency and inequality effects are roughly proportional …
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Families, labor markets, and public policies all structure a child's opportunities and determine the extent to which adult earnings are related to family background. Cross-country comparisons and the underlying trends suggest that these drivers will most likely lower the degree of...
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