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Anti-discrimination measures in education : a comparative policy analysis
Lenhardt, Amanda; Page, Ella; Sarwar, Moizza Binat; … - 2017
-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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634586
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Chapter 6 Educational Wage Premiums and the U.S. Income Distribution: A Survey
Deere, Donald R.; Vesovic, Jelena - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 255-306). 2006
This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in …, empirical analyses concentrated directly on education-related differences in earnings. The human capital revolution of the late … 1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023737
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Language Skills and Earnings Among Legalized Aliens
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
This paper uses the data on males and females from the 1989 Legalized Population Survey (LPS), a sample of aliens granted amnesty under 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, to analyze English language proficiency and earnings. We use a model of English language proficiency that is based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200416
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Slavery, racial inequality, and education : historical slavery may be a driver of human capital and its unequal racial distribution, with implications for education and income ineq...
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
Income inequality is a critical issue in both political and public debate. Educational attainment is a key causal factor of continuing inequality, since it influences human capital accumulation and, as a consequence, the unequal distribution of earnings. Educational inequality displays a racial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430223
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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2003 - This version: February 2003
Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325967
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Unemployment, education and earnings growth
Brunello, Giorgio - 2001
I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and … subsequent earnings growth. show that individuals with more education have more to lose in terms of subsequent earnings growth … from the experience of unemployment. This result partially compensates the fact that more education reduces the incidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402355
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Malaria, Race, and Inequality : Evidence from the Early 1900s US South
Battaglia, Emily; Kisat, Faizaan - 2021
This study investigates the impact of malaria eradication programs on black-white economic disparities in the early 1900s US South. Malaria eradication was widespread and improved health across races. Yet, only white men experienced economic benefits. Using matched census records, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252134
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How Racial Measures Affect the Estimation of Racial Inequality
Rademakers, Robbert; van Hoorn, André - 2022
Although racial inequalities are much researched, studies differ on the specific measure of individuals’ racial identity that they consider. This can affect the comparability of results across studies and, more importantly, the estimation of racial inequality in society. We estimate the extent...
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Divergent Paths : A New Perspective on Earnings Differences between Black and White Men Since 1940
Bayer, Patrick J. - 2018
This paper presents new evidence on the evolution of black-white earnings differences among all men at different points in the distribution. We study two dimensions of earnings gaps: the black-white difference in earnings; and the difference between a black man's position in the black earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915431
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Income gaps : education and inequality
Leone, Julián; Cascio, Jorge Lo - In: Economics and business review 6/20 (2020) 4, pp. 27-50
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