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Berg, Servaas van der; Maia, Carlos da; Burger, Cobus - 2017

higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …

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Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in China

Li, Yanan; Xing, Chunbing - 2020

In this paper, we analyse the relationship between China's structural transformation and the inclusiveness of its economic growth. China's economy has undergone significant structural changes since it initiated the economic reforms in 1978. Economic activities have shifted from the...

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Does sorting matter for learning inequality? : evidence from East Africa

Anand, Paul; Behrman, Jere R.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Jones, Sam - 2019

could substantially reduce inequalities in education. …

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China and the United States : different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility

Weide, Roy van der; Narayan, Ambar - 2019

The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...

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Explaining income inequality trends : an integrated approach

Sauer, Petra; Rao, Narasimha D.; Pachauri, Shonali - 2020

education's equalizing effect across high- and low-income countries. Our results are largely robust to changing the underlying …

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The gender gap, education, and the life cycle profile in the Brazilian formal labour market

Machado, Cecilia; Neri, Marcelo Cortes; Pinho Neto, … - 2018

education levels. We find that the gender earnings gap increases with the educational level. For instance, at 40 years of age …, women without high school degrees earned on average 28.8 per cent less than men with the same level of education and for the …

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Affirmative action and long-run changes in group inequality in India

Kumar, Hemanshu; Somanathan, Rohini - 2016

points to divergence: communities with more education in 1961 also had higher educational attainment in 2001. Also, while …

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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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On the impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governance

Ferreira, Ines A.; Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Tarp, Finn - 2021

outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance, with a focus on …

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The changing nature of work and earnings inequality in China

Xing, Chunbing - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021

intensity are associated with lower wages. While the return to education has become the largest contributor to wage inequality …

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