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We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1 … main conclusion is that while education may be important to explain total inequality, there is no evidence that mass … education is a major factor explaining the differences between the rich and the rest of the population. Not even elite education …
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We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1 … main conclusion is that while education may be important to explain total inequality, there is no evidence that mass … education is a major factor explaining the differences between the rich and the rest of the population. Not even elite education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509625
There is important evidence of a recent upsurge of so-called residual inequality, i.e. wage inequality that cannot be explained by workers? observable attributes, such as schooling. The main purpose of this article is to review the intuitions and results of some of the main theoretical models...
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premium for secondary education attained by young workers aged 20 to 24 in Brazil; as this could potentially lead to low … levels of interest for attending secondary schools. We take into account the endogeneity of education in the wage equation …
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premium for secondary education attained by young workers aged 20 to 24 in Brazil; as this could potentially lead to low … levels of interest for attending secondary schools. We take into account the endogeneity of education in the wage equation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013440500
This paper shows that labor market institutions are important for the formation of new enterprises. The effects of labor market institutions on entrepreneurship, wage determination, and firm size are analysed analytically and illustrated numerically. The main result is that an increase in union...
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analyses how the social origins of these individuals are mediated by the characteristics of higher education courses and … courses and higher education institutions were constructed. In addition to descriptive analyses of the employment trajectories … of STEM graduates, multilevel regression models were used to estimate the effects of social origins and higher education …
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analyses how the social origins of these individuals are mediated by the characteristics of higher education courses and … courses and higher education institutions were constructed. In addition to descriptive analyses of the employment trajectories … of STEM graduates, multilevel regression models were used to estimate the effects of social origins and higher education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014443329
reduce inequality and poverty and only a significant scale-up of university education would lead to much lower levels of … only have occurred under optimistic assumptions about growth, job-skill matching, and non-declining returns to education …. In short, education is not a panacea to poverty and inequality. These results are robust when tested with different data …
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