IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ebl/ecbull/eb-07aa0029.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Inequalities, public education expenditures and intergenerational mobility

Author

Listed:
  • Mohamed Ben Mimoun

    (Université de Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris)

Abstract

This paper shows that, depending on the initial distribution of material wealth and that of individuals' abilities, economies converge in the long-run towards different levels of the size of the skilled workforce, and average wealth. Furthermore, unless the income tax rate is too high, the increase in total public funds is associated, in the long-run, with a higher net mobility, a larger fraction of skilled workers, and higher levels of wealth of all the dynasties. In addition, the reallocation of public expenditures from basic to advanced education can result in a lower mobility, a lower long-run size of skilled workforce, and a lower long-run level of wealth held by rich dynasties, if the transfer of resources comes at the expense of excessively lowering the quality of education at the basic schooling level.

Suggested Citation

  • Mohamed Ben Mimoun, 2007. "Inequalities, public education expenditures and intergenerational mobility," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 28(17), pages 1.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-07aa0029
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.accessecon.com/pubs/EB/2007/Volume28/EB-07AA0029A.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • H5 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
    • I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-07aa0029. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: John P. Conley (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.