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The distributive effects of education : an unconditional quantile regression approach
Alejo, Javier; Gabrielli, Maria Florencia; Sosa … - 2011
exibility and usefulness of UQR methods. Our application for the case of Argentina shows that education contributed positively … to increased inequality in Argentina, mostly due to the effect of strongly heterogeneous effects of education on earnings …. -- unconditional quantile regression ; income inequality ; education ; Argentina …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009376705
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The distributive effects of education : an unconditional quantile regression approach
Alejo, Javier; Gabrielli, Maria Florencia; Sosa … - In: Revista de análisis económico 29 (2014) 1, pp. 53-76
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499616
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161622
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Education, globalization, and income inequality in Asia
Park, Kang Hoon - 2017
This study considers how education and globalization affect income inequality in Asia, with unbalanced panel data. The … indicates that a higher level of education achieved by the population aged 15 and over has improved income distribution in Asia …, while educational inequality, measured by the education Gini index, has a negative effect on income distribution. Higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011642136
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A decomposition method to evaluate the "paradox of progress" with evidence for Argentina
Alejo, Javier; Gasparini, Leonardo; Montes-Rojas, Gabriel; … - 2022
The ‘paradox of progress’ is an empirical regularity that associates more education with larger income inequality. Two … education) and the heterogeneity in its returns, as captured by quantile regressions. We propose a joint least-squares and … case of Argentina 1992 to 2015. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013179189
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Does self-perceptions and income inequality match? : the case of subjective social status
Poppitz, Philipp - 2016
-material factors. Besides income and wealth, other dimensions of inequality including education, occupational prestige, parental … health and the education system, which also moderates the relevance of wealth on subjective social status. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508960
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The impact of COVID-19 on education in Latin America : long-run implications for poverty and inequality
Bracco, Jessica; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; … - 2024
on the impact of COVID-19 and school closures on education in Latin America by exploiting harmonized microdata from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468167
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Marital Patterns and Income Inequality
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2018
We investigate the role of marital patterns in explaining rising income inequality using a structural marriage matching model with unobserved heterogeneity. This allows us to consider both the extensive and intensive margins of the marriage market, i.e. who remains single and who marries whom....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917082
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Marital patterns and income inequality
Dupuy, Arnaud; Weber, Simon - 2018
We investigate the role of marital patterns in explaining rising income inequality using a structural marriage matching model with unobserved heterogeneity. This allows us to consider both the extensive and intensive margins of the marriage market, i.e. who remains single and who marries whom....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871663
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Equality of opportunity for well-being
Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017
A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well- being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716166