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
Materias:
Education
inequality
earnings
Latin America
Acceso en línea:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0719-04332014000100001
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