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Can Educational Expansion Improve Income Inequality in China? Evidences from the Chns 1997 and 2006 Data
Ning, Guangjie - 2010
Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the … transitional period. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data collected in 1997 and 2006, this paper studies how … effect. In explaining the earning gap in China, the price effect is more important than the population effect. The labor …
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How Does Education Affect the Earnings Distribution in Urban China?
Wang, Le - 2011
China's phenomenal growth is accompanied by both relatively low level of standards of living and high inequality. It is … China during economic transition. We find that returns to education are generally more pronounced for individuals in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117613
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Rank, Income and Income Inequality in Urban China
Gustafsson, Björn; Sai, Ding - 2021
While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others … and western China for 1995 and 2002. For 2002, persons of high rank make up 3 percent and persons of middle rank make up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324772
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Educational Inequality and the Returns to Skills
Lundberg, Shelly J. - 2013
Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076159
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Between-Group Inequality May Decline Despite a Rising Skill Premium
Cortes, Guido Matias; Aziz, Imran - 2021
A vast literature aimed at understanding the nature and causes of wage inequality focuses on the skill premium as a key object of interest. In an environment where both the skill premium and the share of skilled workers are changing, however, the between-skill-group component of inequality may...
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The Evolution of the Returns to Human Capital in Canada, 1980-2005
Boudarbat, Brahim - 2010
We examine the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2005. Our main finding is that returns to education increased substantially for Canadian men, contrary to conclusions reached previously. Most of this rise took place in the early 1980s and since 1995....
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Educational Self-Selection, Tasks Assignment and Rising Wage Inequality
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2021
This paper presents a general equilibrium assignment model of workers to tasks with endogenous human capital formation and multidimensionality of skills. The model has 2 key features. First, skills are endogenous and multidimensional. Second, two types of assignment occur, workers self-select...
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'For One More Year With You' : Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Weber, Guglielmo - 2021
Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We find that compulsory school reforms significantly affect educational...
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Earnings Inequality, Returns to Education and Immigration into Ireland
Barrett, Alan; Fitzgerald, John - 2021
Increasing earnings inequality has been an important feature of the US and UK labour markets in recent years. The increase appears to be related to an increased demand for skilled labour and an increase in the returns to education. In this paper we examine what has happened to earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321262
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The Lasting Impact of Mothers' Fetal Malnutrition on Their Offspring : Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine
Kim, Seonghoon - 2010
offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137786