Recent studies have used quantile regression (QR) techniques to estimate the impact of education on the location, scale …

affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labour … attendance or education-related household expenditures. …

Because of their more limited inequality and more comprehensive social welfare systems, many perceive average welfare … entrepreneurs (thus greater inequality) increases entrepreneurial e¤ort and hence a country’s contribution to the world technology … “cutthroat”capitalism that generates greater inequality and more innovation and will become the technology leaders, while others …

curve in many Western economies during this period, with the fall in inequality following redistribution due to …

redistributive than a nondemocratic regime, and this gives the elite an incentive to mount a coup. Because inequality makes democracy … relationship between inequality and redistribution is nonmonotonic; societies with intermediate levels of inequality consolidate …

British workers. We therefore suggest that the minimum wage has the potential to reduce wages inequality in the longer …

increasing returns to education at the labor market participation margin, and that these depend directly on the elasticity of … labor supply with respect to wages. Thus the increasing returns to education problem will be most relevant for women or …