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Enrolment in Higher Education and Changes in Income Inequality

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  • Kevin Sylwester

    (Southern Illinois University-Carbondale)

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    Using a cross-section of countries, this paper empirically examines whether greater enrolment rates in higher education are associated with increases or decreases in subsequent income inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient. It finds a negative association between the two, suggesting that countries with larger enrolment rates saw their income inequality decrease relative to other countries. These findings are robust to the inclusion of several control variables and to limiting the sample to non-OECD countries. Copyright Blackwell Publishers Ltd and the Board of Trustees of the Bulletin of Economic Research, 2003.

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    Article provided by Wiley Blackwell in its journal Bulletin of Economic Research.

    Volume (Year): 55 (2003)
    Issue (Month): 3 (07)
    Pages: 249-262

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