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A new and easy-to-use measure of literacy, its axiomatic properties and an application
Basu, Kaushik; Lee, Travis - 2008
It can be argued that just as there are different kinds of literacy, there are different kinds of illiteracy. A proximate illiterate, i.e. an illiterate who has easy access to a literate person, is clearly better off than someone without such access. The existing literature that takes account of...
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How redistributive policies reduce market inequality: Education premiums in 22 OECD countries
Weisstanner, David; Armingeon, Klaus - 2018
premium levels and changes within countries. For the literature on income inequality, these findings imply the need to pay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060319
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Government expenditure in the DINA framework: Allocation methods and consequences for post-tax income inequality
Riedel, Lukas; Stichnoth, Holger - 2022
Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012876073
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Nowcasting the impact of COVID-19 on education, intergenerational mobility and earnings inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Larroulet, Patricio - 2022
rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On …. disadvantaged children, earnings inequality could increase between one and four Gini points, depending on the assumptions. …
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Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences: Prognosis of the longer-run persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Tommasi, Mariano - 2021
The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of low-educated families. Applying a counterfactual exercise we project the effects of school closures and other lockdown policies on the intergenerational persistence of education...
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Diverging destinies in international perspective: Education, single motherhood, and child poverty
Härkönen, Juho - 2017
social inequality. In this study, I used data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to describe trends in educational … amplify differences in child poverty by maternal education. The prevalence of single motherhood has increased in almost all of … particularly among the least educated. Educational differences in single motherhood can amplify differences in child poverty by …
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