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 …

rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On … completion is higher. However, a small additional impact on girls’ education due to the Covid-19 induced rise in teenage … pregnancy is observed in some countries. Intergenerational mobility of education decreases from 1 to close to 50 percent …

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 …

levels of human capital, typically measured through education, earn more on average and are privy to greater levels of upward … change over time. Nevertheless, other factors may have an incremental effect over education, namely cognitive ability and the …

Education has long been perceived as a great equalizer, but even with universal rises in schooling years, income … into mean, dispersion, and price components. The proposed method is then used to investigate the roles of the education … variable in driving down China's wage inequality between 2010 and 2018. We find that (1) education accounted for over 30% of …

traditional role of education. We first apply a two-way fixed-effects wage estimation, a' la AKM, to the Italian private sector …