Should Less Inequality in Education Lead to a More Equal Income Distribution?

Autor/inn/en	Foldvari, Peter; van Leeuwen, Bas
Titel	Should Less Inequality in Education Lead to a More Equal Income Distribution?
Quelle	In: Education Economics, 19 (2011) 5, S.537-554 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0964-5292
DOI	10.1080/09645292.2010.488472
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Human Capital; Educational Attainment; Differences; Income; Education Work Relationship; Statistical Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Humankapital; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Unterscheiden; Einkommen; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	In this paper, we revisit the question whether inequality in education and human capital is closely related to income inequality. Using the most popular functional forms describing the relationship between, first, output and human capital and, second, education and human capital, we find that the effect of inequality in schooling on income inequality is very low, even insignificant in an economic sense. This is confirmed by our empirical analysis, since we find that the Gini coefficient of education yields an insignificant coefficient. If we take care of the possible simultaneity using a two-stage least-squares (2SLS) analysis, we find that there is no relationship in the case of non-OECD countries, but a positive relationship is found in the case of OECD countries. Also, we cannot confirm that a more equal distribution of education leads to higher income per capita, even though this result is sensitive to the choice of data. (Contains 5 notes, 8 tables, and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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