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COULD AN INCREASE IN EDUCATION RAISE INCOME INEQUALITY ?: EVIDENCE FOR LATIN AMERICA

dc.creatorBattistón,Diego
dc.creatorGarcía-Domench,Carolina
dc.creatorGasparini,Leonardo
dc.date2014-05-01
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-25T12:42:03Z
dc.date.available2019-04-25T12:42:03Z
dc.identifierhttps://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0719-04332014000100001
dc.identifier.urihttp://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/61305
dc.descriptionThis 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 result is expected to hold for future expansions if increases in education are not highly progressive. Both facts are closely linked to the convexity of returns to education in the labor market. On average, the estimated impact of the education expansion remains unequalizing when allowing for changes in returns to schooling, although the effect becomes smaller.
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dc.languageen
dc.publisherPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Economía.
dc.relation10.7764/LAJE.51.1.1
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.sourceLatin american journal of economics v.51 n.1 2014
dc.subjectEducation
dc.subjectinequality
dc.subjectearnings
dc.subjectLatin America
dc.titleCOULD AN INCREASE IN EDUCATION RAISE INCOME INEQUALITY ?: EVIDENCE FOR LATIN AMERICA


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