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Education has long been perceived as a great equalizer, but even with universal rises in schooling years, income … into mean, dispersion, and price components. The proposed method is then used to investigate the roles of the education … variable in driving down China's wage inequality between 2010 and 2018. We find that (1) education accounted for over 30% of …
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traditional role of education. We first apply a two-way fixed-effects wage estimation, a' la AKM, to the Italian private sector …
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This study investigates the dynamics of between-group and within-group wage inequality in a model with heterogeneous learning abilities putting a key emphasis on the shape of the ability distribution. In our model, intergenerational human capital externalities incentivize individuals to invest...
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encompasses residential segregation, low quality of education, low paying jobs, discrimination in the labor market, and extra … costs of upward social mobility for minorities, Black families face more challenges for leveraging their education to escape … variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income …
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The 'paradox of progress' is an empirical regularity that associates more education with larger income inequality. Two … education) and the heterogeneity in its returns, as captured by quantile regressions. We propose a joint least-squares and … case of Argentina 1992 to 2015. …
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recently launched in Argentina– on backwardness in school. Specifically, we evaluate whether children enrolled in the program … closed their education gap, differentiating between children and adolescents. Using propensity score as a prelude to the …
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demand for post compulsory education and prevailing labour market conditions in Britain. We explicitly incorporate the role … education and social norms, outweigh economic considerations among students from higher socio economic backgrounds, who tend to … enrol in higher education irrespectively of labour markets conditions. …
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's occupation, parental education, and the number of books in the family home. Our results suggest that children's reports of their … commonly used - while results for parental education are rather mixed. …
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maternal education levels and gaps in outcomes are calculated between each group. Quantile decompositions of the pairwise gaps …
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education into higher earnings, non-HBCUs are doing a better job in helping graduates in science, technology, engineering, and …
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