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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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development, inequality - both vertical (between individuals and households) and horizontal (between groups) - is a core concern … in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Despite considerable attention to horizontal inequality in both research …Inequality and social exclusion receive considerable contemporary policy attention. In the field of international …
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We investigate the effect of higher education on the evolution of inequality. In so doing we propose a novel … initial phase in which no social class invests in higher education of their children, such that the evolution of inequality is … education of their children, which partially crowds out bequests and thereby reduces inequality in the short run. The better …
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We investigate the effect of higher education on the evolution of inequality. In so doing we propose a novel … initial phase in which no social class invests in higher education of their children such that inequality is driven by … bequests. Once a certain income threshold is surpassed, the rich start to invest in higher education of their children, which …
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We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long …
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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 … other measures of development such as life expectancy and GDP per capita. Fifth, in the youngest cohorts, women have more …
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We study the relationship between per-capita income and income inequality with a heterogeneous panel co …-51 years and consider measures for both pre-tax and post-tax income inequality; second, we take into account country …-tax income inequality,but no such relationship for post-tax income inequality. Moreover, we find estimates on the country level …
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This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The … opportunity to study slow development processes. The empirical inequality-development studies have started to call into question … spline methods. The association between top 1% share and development is found to experience a reversal at later stages of …
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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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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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