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Inequality and growth : the dual role of human capital in development

Eicher, Theo S. - 2000

endogenize the demand and supply of skills. We explicitly introduce the costs and externalities in education, and examine how …

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Inequality and growth : the role of human capital with heterogeneous skills

Borissov, Kirill; Bosi, Stefano; Ha-Huy, Thai; Modesto, … - 2016

We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...

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Policies, skills and earnings : how educational inequality affects earnings inequality

Checchi, Daniele; Werfhorst, Herman van de - In: Socio-economic review 16 (2018) 1, pp. 137-160

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Education and within groups earning inequality in Pakistan

Sial, Maqbool H.; Sarwar, Ghulam; Akram, Waseem - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 12 (2018) 1, pp. 183-197

of education in Pakistan. Utilizing four rounds of household level surveys conducted at national level during 2001 …-2014, the study analyzes the effect of education on earning inequality within workers having same level of education. Quantile … regression is employed to estimate and test earning inequality within workers having primary, secondary and tertiary education …

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Impact of education on inequality across the wage distribution profile in Cameroon : 2005 - 10

Baye, Francis Menjo - 2015

This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …

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Education, growth and income inequality

Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2003 - This version: February 2003

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …

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Monetary Policy and the Racial Wage Gap

Berisha, Edmond; Dubey, Ram Sewak; Olson, Eric - 2023

This paper aims to clarify the relationship between monetary policy shocks and wage inequality. We emphasize the relevance of within and between wage group inequalities in explaining total wage inequality in the United States. Relying on the quarterly data for the period 2000-2020, our analysis...

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Trends in Economic Inequality : Are U.S. States Growing Apart?

Berisha, Edmond - 2020

Using quarterly real GDP data from 2005 to 2019 for all U. S. states from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, we construct an economic inequality measure which is additively decomposable into within and between-region inequality. We find increases in economic disparity in terms of total real GDP...

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Decomposition of Income Inequality in France : The role of Interest Rate

Berisha, Edmond - 2020

Understanding within and between group inequality is fundamental in understanding the evolution of income inequality in any country. Using a century of data for France, and the Theil measure of income inequality, which is decomposable, we show that income inequality within the bottom 90\%...

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Wealth and Want : Income Inequality and Demand for Luxury Goods in the United States

Akarsu, Mahmut Zeki; Gharehgozli, Orkideh - 2023

This study investigates the relationship between conspicuous consumption and inequality in the United States by doing text mining in Google searches for luxury and comfort goods. The findings reveal a strong correlation between the pursuit of luxury items and levels of income inequality in...

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