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Does Educational Achievement Help to Explain Income Inequality?

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Checchi, D.

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In this paper we propose to measure the inequality of educational achievements by constructing a Gini index on educational attainments. We then use the proposed measure to analyse the relationship between inequality in incomes and educational achievements.

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Paper provided by World Institute for Development Economics Research in its series Research Paper with number 208.

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Date of creation: 2000
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Keywords: INCOME ; DISCRIMINATION ; EDUCATION;

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J70 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - General
I39 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - Other

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  1. Coen Teuling & Thijs van Rens, 2001. "Education, Growth and Income Inequality," Economics Working Papers 942, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, revised Jul 2006. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Rita Asplund, 2004. "A Macroeconomic Perspective on Education and Inequality," Discussion Papers 906, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy. [Downloadable!]
  3. Andres Rodriguez-Pose & Vasileios Tselios, 2006. "Education and Income Inequality in the Regions of the European Union," ERSA conference papers ersa06p370, European Regional Science Association. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Daniele Checchi & Cecilia García Peñalosa, 2005. "Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD," IZA Discussion Papers 1681, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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