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higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …
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points to divergence: communities with more education in 1961 also had higher educational attainment in 2001. Also, while …
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This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …
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intensity are associated with lower wages. While the return to education has become the largest contributor to wage inequality …
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students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …
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education's equalizing effect across high- and low-income countries. Our results are largely robust to changing the underlying …
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-discrimination measures in education. An analysis of trends in inequalities in human development is used to identify three countries that have … education has been taken up politically. …
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We analyse horizontal inequality in wealth and in years of education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo over the … period of analysis. In addition, horizontal inequality in years of formal education is higher among geographical, gender and … gender-based inequality in years of education. We also find that gender-based horizontal inequality in years of education is …
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/urban groups. While there has been an improvement in horizontal inequality in education, this paper shows little change in other …
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education levels. We find that the gender earnings gap increases with the educational level. For instance, at 40 years of age …, women without high school degrees earned on average 28.8 per cent less than men with the same level of education and for the …
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