Arbeitspapier

Inequality in education: Evidence for Latin America

This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American countries over the decades of 1990 and 2000. The analysis covers a wide range of issues on the differences in educational outcomes and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrolment, wage skill differentials and public social expenditure. The evidence indicates a significant difference between the 1990s and the 2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution. In particular, changes in the 2000s seem to have had an equalizing impact on earnings, given the more pro-poor pattern of the education upgrading and a more stable or even increasing relative demand for low-skill labour.

Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-929-230-460-7

Erschienen in
Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2011/93

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Education and Inequality
Education and Economic Development
Education: Government Policy
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Thema
education
inequality
enrolment
wage premium
Latin America
Bildungsertrag
Bildungsverhalten
Bildungsniveau
Einkommensverteilung
Lateinamerika

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Cruces, Guillermo
García Domench, Carolina
Gasparini, Leonardo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2011

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Cruces, Guillermo
  • García Domench, Carolina
  • Gasparini, Leonardo
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Entstanden

  • 2011

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