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Unequal opportunities and human capital formation

Mejίa, Daniel; St-Pierre, Marc - 2005

endowments of the factors that complement the schooling process. The paper explores the relationship between inequality of … opportunities, inequality of outcomes, and efficiency in human capital formation. Using numerical solutions we study how the …-preserving spread and a change in the support. The results suggest that a higher degree of inequality of opportunities is associated …

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Task-biased changes of employment and remuneration: The case of occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into good and bad jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this...

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Dynamic Effects of Educational Assortative Mating on Labor Supply

Gihleb, Rania; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2016

substantially higher employment (all else equal), which in turn amplifies income inequality across couples. Using NLSY79, we … accumulation and implied wage growth. Inequality between couples is largely driven by the persistence in labor supply choices and …

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Wage polarization in a high-inequality emerging economy: The case of South Africa

Bhorat, Haroon; Lilenstein, Kezia; Oosthuizen, Morné; … - 2020

Occupational Information Network to explore the relevance of these four frameworks for explaining earnings inequality between 2000 …

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Parenting Promotes Social Mobility Within and Across Generations

García, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 2022

This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within and across generations. Instead of conducting a standard meta-analysis, we present a harmonized primary data analysis of programs that shape current policy. Our analysis is a...

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Decomposing lifetime-earnings differences between white, black, and hispanic families

Bodenschatz, Hope; Daniels, Gerald Eric; Thompson, … - 2023

This paper explores disparities between White, Black, and Hispanic families using a measure of lifetime earnings developed by Jacobs et al. (2022) for the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF). Lifetime earnings are a particularly important measure of well-being, with relevance for wealth...

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Intergenerational trends in educational and income mobility in the United States of America since the 1960s

Ernst, Ekkehard; Langot, François; Merola, Rossana; … - 2024

Concerns about widening inequality have increased attention on the topic of equality of opportunities and …

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Evidence of Returns to Schooling in Africa from Household Surveys: Monitoring and Restructuring the Market for Education

Schultz, T. Paul - 2003

Wage-differentials by education of men and women are examined from African household surveys to suggest private wage returns to schooling. It is commonly asserted that returns are highest at primary school levels and decrease at secondary and postsecondary levels, whereas private returns in six...

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Accelerated Technological Progress - An Explanation for Wage Dispersion and a Possible Solution to the Productivity Paradox

Nikutowski, Oliver - 2007

Due to scarcity considerations an increase in the supply of college graduates should reduce the premium for this kind of qualification. Therefore it seems quite contradictory that a tremendous educational expansion in the USA is accompanied by rising wage dispersion (overall and between...

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Provincial valuations of human capital in urban China, inter-regional inequality and the implicit value of a Guangdong hukou

Zax, Jeffrey - 2016

This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in … double, interpersonal inequality would decline by 40-50% and inter-provincial inequality would vanish. In all years …

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