Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice - HAL - 2007
level since 1870. Inequality in years of schooling is found to be rapidly decreasing, but we show that this result is … completely driven by the decline in illiteracy. Then, we turn to inequality in human capital and focus on a Mincerian production … capital inequality has increased since 1870, but does not exceed 10% of world income inequality. Next, we analyse the …
