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Inequality and Academic Achievement in Chile

Munoz, Pablo - 2018

This work uses a set of panel data to contribute new evidence on the impacts of socioeconomic determinants on academic achievement in Chile. Socioeconomic determinants are found to have a statistically significant effect, which rises over time, on academic achievement. The evidence shows that...

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The changing nature of Irish wage inequality from boom to bust

Holton, Niamh; O'Neill, Donal - 2015

The dramatic change in economic conditions in Ireland over the last 10 years provides an opportunity to examine the impact of large macroeconomic shocks on inequality. We analyse wage inequality in Ireland from the height of an economic boom, through a very deep recession, to the start of a...

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Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil

Arias, Omar; Yamada, Gustavo; Tejerina, Luis R. - 2004

This study combines survey data with annual state data on pupil-teacher ratios covering broadly the period 1940-90 to investigate the role of race, family background and education (both the quantity and quality) in explaining earnings inequality between whites and the African descendent...

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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility, Inequality, and Growth

Owen, Ann L.; Weil, David N. - 2010

We study inequality, intergenerational mobility, and returns to education in a general-equilibrium model. Individuals earn wages depending on their education and their innate abilities. Education is purchased with transfers received from parents, while ability is a random variable which is...

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Cross-Country Inequality Trends

Acemoglu, Daron - 2003

The economics profession has made considerable progress in understanding the increase in wage inequality in the U.S. and the UK over the past several decades, but currently lacks a consensus on why inequality did not increase, or increased much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time...

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Can Educational Expansion Improve Income Inequality? Evidence from the CHNS 1997 and 2006 Data

Ning, Guangjie - 2011

Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the … transitional period. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data collected in 1997 and 2006, this paper studies how …-observed effect. In explaining the earning gap in China, the price effect is more important than the population effect. The labor …

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Product Market Competition, Returns to Skill and Wage Inequality

Guadalupe, Maria - 2021

This paper shows that increasing product market competition can have a direct impact on the employment relationship and on wage inequality. I develop a simple model in which an increase in product market competition increases returns to skill through the effect of competition on the sensitivity...

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Between-Group Competition in the Labor Market and the Rising Returns to Skill : Us and France 1964-2000

Wasmer, Etienne - 2021

This paper describes the changes in the composition of the labor force in the last 35 years and quantifies the substitution of low education/high experience workers by low experience/high education workers by using US and French microdata. The consequences of this substitution on the wage...

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How high can you climb? : earnings inequality and intragenerational earnings mobility in a developing country : evidence from Thai tax returns

Athiphat Muthitacharoen; Trongwut Burong - 2023

This paper investigates inequality and intragenerational economic mobility in a developing country with large inequality. Understanding economic mobility is important because it shapes our perception of inequality. Despite its significance, evidence on intragenerational mobility, especially that...

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New perspectives on inequality in Latin America

Fernández, Manuel; Gabriela Serrano, Gabriela - 2022

was not enough to counteract demand-side trends. At the turn of the century, improved external conditions, driven by China …

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