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Can higher education reduce inequality in developing countries?
Developing countries often face two well-known structural problems: high youth unemployment and high inequality. In recent decades, policymakers have increased the share of government spending on education in developing countries to address both of these issues. The empirical literature offers mixed results on which type of education is most suitable to improve gainful employment and reduce inequality: is it primary, secondary, or tertiary education? Investigating recent literature on the returns to education in selected developing countries in Africa can help to answer this question.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2016 ; Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Wirtschaft
Education and Inequality
Returns to Education
- Subject
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tertiary education
youth unemployment
returns to education
asset inequality
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Shimeles, Abebe
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
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2016
- DOI
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doi:10.15185/izawol.273
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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- Shimeles, Abebe
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2016
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