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This study considers how education and globalization affect income inequality in Asia, with unbalanced panel data. The …, while educational inequality, measured by the education Gini index, has a negative effect on income distribution. Higher … evidence supports the validity of Kuznets' inverted-U hypothesis for the connection between income level and income inequality …
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equal distribution of education contributes significantly to reducing income inequality. Educational expansion is a major … stability contribute to reducing income inequality, while public spending on education helps to reduce educational inequality … factor in reducing educational inequality and thus income inequality. Public policies that improve social benefits and price …
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the vast majority of countries. Third, in many countries with low levels of education for both men and women in 1960 … better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys attain high levels of education. Most countries with large … education than men in some regions of the world. Although gender gaps in educational attainment are diminishing in most …
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implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … "inequality convergence" with previously more equal countries becoming less equal over time and the obverse. We provide support …
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constant correction to survey-derived inequality estimates. Underreporting of income by the bottom 50 percent of the world … global poverty and inequality have declined dramatically between 1980 and 2019. Finally, we find that within …-country inequality is falling on average and has been largely constant since the 1990s. …
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education inequalities. Using PISA 2018 data from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, we find that students … are more likely to end their education early and repeat grades, especially in Spain, Germany and Italy. The distribution …
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of education inequality measures across age groups allows us to assess the effect of inter-generational education …We construct a new dataset of inequality in educational attainment by age and sex at the global level. The comparison … attainment trends on economic growth. Our results indicate that countries which are able to reduce the inequality of educational …
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We develop a classical macroeconomic model to examine the growth and distributional consequences of education. Contrary … to the received wisdom, we show that human capital accumulation is not necessarily growth-inducing and inequality …-reducing. Expansive education policies may foster growth and reduce earning inequalities between workers, but only by transferring income …
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choose the non-professional education track. Those who might have otherwise pursued higher, professional education may forgo … education since, they will be overqualified in the host country. This will have a long run affect. As time goes on, therefore …
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-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. …
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