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paper applies new tools to the measure of multidimensional inequalities on wages, education and health. The multidimensional …The usual manner of describing inequality in a population, involves income distributions. China has experienced rapid … as well. Education and health care have become less accessible due to increased costs linked to the decentralization of …
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wage equation. …
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experienced in labor market earnings through wage dispersion and employment rate dispersion. We find a low degree of relative risk … aversion (0.93) and the estimates indicate that both wage and employment rate dispersions decrease significantly with schooling …
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The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that inherited humain capital is a powerful vector of inequality formation and persistence, irrespective of its links with financial wealth endowment. This paper argues that the agents who inherit a low level of human capital bear a greater utility...
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educational choices. Individuals decide whether to invest in additional education according to their expectations regarding future …. Then, we analyse the long-term implications of a public policy that would favour education and make it possible to select …
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the probability of entering higher education. Differences in ability(ies) and in parental human capital are much more …
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The purpose is to provide some empirical evidence for promoting new insights into the economics of education … impact on fixed earnings and flexible pay of the traditional human capital theory variables (education and experience) on the …
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probability of entering higher education. Differences in ability(ies) and in parental human capital are much more important. in …
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primary education and 111 countries/areas in secondary education between 1965 and 2010 …
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We review the economic literature on the impacts of the several dimensions of education upon intergenerational … inequality persistency. It is firstly outlined that the critical increase in the population education level in all countries has … not come with lower inequality. The basic tools of education and intergenerational mobility modelling are subsequently …
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