COULD AN INCREASE IN EDUCATION RAISE INCOME INEQUALITY ?: EVIDENCE FOR LATIN AMERICA

COULD AN INCREASE IN EDUCATION RAISE INCOME INEQUALITY ?: EVIDENCE FOR LATIN AMERICA

This paper explores the direct effect of an education expansion on the level of earnings inequality by carrying out microsimulations for most Latin American countries. We find that the direct effect of the increase in years of education in the region in the 1990s and 2000s was unequalizing; this res...

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Autores principales: Battistón,Diego, García-Domench,Carolina, Gasparini,Leonardo
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Economía. 2014
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Education
inequality
earnings
Latin America
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spelling oai:scielo:S0719-043320140001000012014-07-07COULD AN INCREASE IN EDUCATION RAISE INCOME INEQUALITY ?: EVIDENCE FOR LATIN AMERICABattistón,DiegoGarcía-Domench,CarolinaGasparini,Leonardo Education inequality earnings Latin America This paper explores the direct effect of an education expansion on the level of earnings inequality by carrying out microsimulations for most Latin American countries. We find that the direct effect of the increase in years of education in the region in the 1990s and 2000s was unequalizing; this result is expected to hold for future expansions if increases in education are not highly progressive. Both facts are closely linked to the convexity of returns to education in the labor market. On average, the estimated impact of the education expansion remains unequalizing when allowing for changes in returns to schooling, although the effect becomes smaller.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Economía.Latin american journal of economics v.51 n.1 20142014-05-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0719-04332014000100001en10.7764/LAJE.51.1.1
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topic Education
inequality
earnings
Latin America
spellingShingle Education
inequality
earnings
Latin America
Battistón,Diego
García-Domench,Carolina
Gasparini,Leonardo
COULD AN INCREASE IN EDUCATION RAISE INCOME INEQUALITY ?: EVIDENCE FOR LATIN AMERICA
description This paper explores the direct effect of an education expansion on the level of earnings inequality by carrying out microsimulations for most Latin American countries. We find that the direct effect of the increase in years of education in the region in the 1990s and 2000s was unequalizing; this result is expected to hold for future expansions if increases in education are not highly progressive. Both facts are closely linked to the convexity of returns to education in the labor market. On average, the estimated impact of the education expansion remains unequalizing when allowing for changes in returns to schooling, although the effect becomes smaller.
author Battistón,Diego
García-Domench,Carolina
Gasparini,Leonardo
author_facet Battistón,Diego
García-Domench,Carolina
Gasparini,Leonardo
author_sort Battistón,Diego
title COULD AN INCREASE IN EDUCATION RAISE INCOME INEQUALITY ?: EVIDENCE FOR LATIN AMERICA
title_short COULD AN INCREASE IN EDUCATION RAISE INCOME INEQUALITY ?: EVIDENCE FOR LATIN AMERICA
title_full COULD AN INCREASE IN EDUCATION RAISE INCOME INEQUALITY ?: EVIDENCE FOR LATIN AMERICA
title_fullStr COULD AN INCREASE IN EDUCATION RAISE INCOME INEQUALITY ?: EVIDENCE FOR LATIN AMERICA
title_full_unstemmed COULD AN INCREASE IN EDUCATION RAISE INCOME INEQUALITY ?: EVIDENCE FOR LATIN AMERICA
title_sort could an increase in education raise income inequality ?: evidence for latin america
publisher Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Economía.
publishDate 2014
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