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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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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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After much empirical documentation of patterns of inequality, we address in this paper the need for a convincing … interpretation of the causes of inequality in advanced countries. We set the current debate in the context of the evolution of ideas … on inequality, including the debate on Thomas Piketty's book. We argue that four 'engines of inequality' can be …
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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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-term growth and welfare in a currency union that faces fiscal rule constraints and inequality. To address this ongoing government …, inequality, and welfare depends on the type of fiscal policy adopted by government to fund it, notably the trade-off between … completely eliminating oil subsidies appears to be the best policy for reducing inequality while increasing growth and welfare …
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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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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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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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