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Intergenerational earnings persistence and economic inequality in the long-run : evidence from French cohorts, 1931-1975
Lefranc, Arnaud - 2018
This paper analyzes long-term trends in intergenerational earnings persistence in France for male cohorts born between 1931 and 1975. This time period has witnessed important changes in the French labor market and educational system, in particular an important compression of earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816418
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Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America : evidence from a supply-demand framework, 1990 - 2010
Gasparini, Leonardo; Galiani, Sebastián; Cruces, Guillermo - 2011
It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the … productivity of highly-educated workers. -- skill premia ; supply and demand of labor ; income inequality ; Latin America …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524375
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The distributive effects of education : an unconditional quantile regression approach
Alejo, Javier; Gabrielli, Maria Florencia; Sosa … - 2011
. -- unconditional quantile regression ; income inequality ; education ; Argentina …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009376705
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Returns to Education and Rural Migrant Wage Differentials in China : IV Quantile Treatment Effects
Messinis, George - 2014
This article presents new evidence on urban-rural migrant wage differentials of workers in full-time employment in China. It utilises a nationally representative data set, recent matching techniques, and IV estimation methods to evaluate conditional and unconditional quantile treatment effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048659
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Saving and wealth inequality
De Nardi, Mariacristina; Fella, Giulio - 2017
Why are some people wealth rich while others are poor? To what extent can governments affect inequality? Which instruments should they use? Answering these questions requires understanding why people save. Dynamic quantitative models of wealth inequality can help us to understand and quantify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011671879
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How Do Taxes Affect Human Capital? The Role of Intergenerational Mobility
Hendricks, Lutz - 1999
Existing studies of the effects of taxation on human capital accumulation are based on models with extreme intergenerational mobility properties. One strand of the literature uses life-cycle models, in which intergenerational mobility is perfect. Another strand relies on models of infinitely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014181728
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The Role of Education Signaling in Explaining the Growth of College Wage Premium
Zheng, Yu - 2013
This paper incorporates an explicit education signaling mechanism into a dynamic model of production and asks if "higher education as a signal" helps explain the simultaneous increase in the supply and price of skilled relative to unskilled labor, as is observed in the US since 1980. The key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014166743
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Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America : Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework, 1990-2010
Gasparini, Leonardo - 2012
It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113066
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Educational Self-Selection, Tasks Assignment and Rising Wage Inequality
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2021
This paper presents a general equilibrium assignment model of workers to tasks with endogenous human capital formation and multidimensionality of skills. The model has 2 key features. First, skills are endogenous and multidimensional. Second, two types of assignment occur, workers self-select...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316714
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The long-run effects of recessions on education and income
Stuart, Bryan A. - 2019
This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1980-1982 recession on education and income. Using confidential Census … capita in their county of birth reduces four-year college degree attainment by 10 percent and income in adulthood by 3 … graduates and $42-$87 billion less earned income per year. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022789