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This study considers how education and globalization affect income inequality in Asia, with unbalanced panel data. The … indicates that a higher level of education achieved by the population aged 15 and over has improved income distribution in Asia …, while educational inequality, measured by the education Gini index, has a negative effect on income distribution. Higher …
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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...
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We develop a classical macroeconomic model to examine the growth and distributional consequences of education. Contrary …-reducing. Expansive education policies may foster growth and reduce earning inequalities between workers, but only by transferring income … from workers to capitalists. Further, the overall effect of an increase in education depends on the actual characteristics …
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Education is a crucial asset for a country's economic prospects and for its inhabitants. In addition to its direct … (generated by, e.g., technological or climatic change) among other benefits. In this chapter, we study education inequality in … interaction of education inequality with other forms of inequality, primarily income and labor market outcomes. Our analysis is …
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Education is widely recognized as one of the most important determinants of earnings in the labour market. A main … aspect of the relationship between education and earnings is the wage premium between workers with higher and lower education …. In this study I analyze the evolution of wage premiums of attaining further education in the Republic of Cyprus. The …
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Education inequality has always been a concern for policy makers due to its long-term and intergenerational impacts …. This paper examines the determinants and the sources of education inequality among the youth in the MENA region using … harmonized income and expenditure surveys. More attention is given to income and regional disparities as source of education …
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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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encompasses residential segregation, low quality of education, low paying jobs, discrimination in the labor market, and extra … costs of upward social mobility for minorities, Black families face more challenges for leveraging their education to escape … variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income …
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Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio …-fixed effects to address that much of the observed education-health gradient reflects associations rather than causal relationships …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …
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Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s. This paper estimates a model of earnings inequality across OECD countries that incorporates determinants of relative demand and supply of more and less-skilled labour. Drawing...
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