We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1 … main conclusion is that while education may be important to explain total inequality, there is no evidence that mass … education is a major factor explaining the differences between the rich and the rest of the population. Not even elite education …

Publicly provided education is both an important public expenditure and a relevant in-kind transfer, often to the … poorest households. This paper compares three methods to value education services and their distributive impact. The methods … are: i) The first method is cost of provision, according to which education is worth what it costs the state to provide it …

traits on gender differences in career chances.We compare manager’s and other white collar employees in Germany’s private … signifcant gender differences in personal traits, multivariate estimations made clear that these differences cannot explain … gender differences in career chances. Nevertheless, personality traits might indeed play a role but more indirectly: Some of …

„Lücke“ zwischen durchschnittlichen Einkommen der Männer im Vergleich zu den Frauen wird regelmäßig als „Gender …-Pay-Gap“ bezeichnet oder auch „Gender-Wage-Gap“. Das Gender-Pay-Gap wird hier als Indikator zur Messung von Entgeltungsgleichheit zwischen … "Lücke" zwischen durchschnittlichen Einkommen der Männer im Vergleich zu den Frauen wird regelmäßig als "Gender …

The aim of this study is to investigate three relevant dimensions of Brazilian inequality in the labor market, gender …