advantage in the most complex tasks relative to capital, and because the wages of the least skilled workers are sufficiently low … relative to their productivity and the effective cost of capital in low-complexity tasks. Minimum wages and other sources of … higher wages at the bottom make interior automation less likely. Starting with interior automation, a reduction in the cost …

development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …

Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income …

the form of in-kind collective expenditure (e.g., education, defense, infrastructure). The dominant assumption in the …, we find that public education spending goes disproportionately to the bottom half of the income distribution. A lump …-sum allocation provides a good approximation. Moving beyond the cross-section, we find that public education expenditure is …

rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On … completion is higher. However, a small additional impact on girls’ education due to the Covid-19 induced rise in teenage … pregnancy is observed in some countries. Intergenerational mobility of education decreases from 1 to close to 50 percent …