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The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...
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This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...
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role of education in creating socioeconomic opportunities, and show how unresolved immigration status detracts from …
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shown using various measures, race is highly correlated with income and education. We show that municipalities with low … ethnic diversity and low income and education inequality tend to be located in the South region. In regression analysis, we …
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inequality. -- education ; welfare ; poverty ; Ecuador …
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education. The cross-country comparison shows that none of the countries outperform in both components of fairness, whereas the …
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opportunity by increasing mobility through such policies as equal provision of public education. This paper argues that this …
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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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