Could an increase in education raise income inequality?: evidence for Latin America

Autores
Battistón, Diego Ezequiel; García Domench, Carolina; Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Año de publicación
2014
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This 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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Economía
Education
Inequality
Earnings
Latin America
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Could an increase in education raise income inequality?: evidence for Latin America
title Could an increase in education raise income inequality?: evidence for Latin America
spellingShingle Could an increase in education raise income inequality?: evidence for Latin America
Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
Economía
Education
Inequality
Earnings
Latin America
title_short Could an increase in education raise income inequality?: evidence for Latin America
title_full Could an increase in education raise income inequality?: evidence for Latin America
title_fullStr Could an increase in education raise income inequality?: evidence for Latin America
title_full_unstemmed Could an increase in education raise income inequality?: evidence for Latin America
title_sort Could an increase in education raise income inequality?: evidence for Latin America
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
García Domench, Carolina
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
author Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
author_facet Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
García Domench, Carolina
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
author_role author
author2 García Domench, Carolina
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
author2_role author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Economía
Education
Inequality
Earnings
Latin America
topic Economía
Education
Inequality
Earnings
Latin America
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This 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.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales
description This 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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