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Students´ test scores at ages 9 to 15 are a measure of their skills as workers five to 55 years later. Using historic data on test scores and school attendance, I calculate the share of workers in 2005 that could have scored above 400 and above 600 in 45 countries. I find that the share above...
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This paper examines the potential impacts of East-West migration of talents on the innovative capital and hence the long-run growth prospects in Eastern sending countries. Complementing previous studies, we examine the impact of high skill migration not only on the formation of human capital,...
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for global inequality. We develop and parameterize a two-sector, two-class, world economy model that endogenizes education … experiments reveal that the geography of skills matters for global inequality. Low access to education and sectoral misallocation … in the world distribution of skills, slow-growing urbanization in developing countries and a rebound in income inequality …
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-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …
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Preserving environmental quality and addressing economic inequality both feature prominently in public discourse … consider interactions with the other. We synthesize theoretical mechanisms that underpin inequality-environment interlinkages … distribution of environmental amenities and dis-amenities is associated with income and wealth, second, how economic inequality …
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The paper examines the effect of heterogeneity in individual human capital formation on cross-country income inequality … equilibrium, on the intra-generational income inequality in both the investing and receiving countries …
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of worker. Our analysis reveals that the effects of a liberalization on human capital accumulation, income and inequality … 20 percent in the shortrun, and by more than 55 percent after 50 years. The world average index of inequality decreases … identifying assumptions. We also analyze partial liberalization shocks: efficiency and inequality effects are roughly proportional …
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School closures during the 2020 pandemic forced countries to rapidly adopt distance learning, with uncertain effects on education inequalities. Using PISA 2018 data from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, we find that students unable to learn remotely, because of a lack of ICT...
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equal distribution of education contributes significantly to reducing income inequality. Educational expansion is a major … factor in reducing educational inequality and thus income inequality. Public policies that improve social benefits and price … stability contribute to reducing income inequality, while public spending on education helps to reduce educational inequality …
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Projected demographic changes in industrialized countries will reduce the share of the working-age population. Analyses based on standard OLG models predict that these changes will increase the capital-labor ratio. Hence, rates of return to capital decrease and wages increase, which has adverse...
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