Education, growth and income inequality
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- dc.contributor.author Teuling, Coenca
- dc.contributor.author Van Rens, Thijs, 1973-ca
- dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
- dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-26T12:07:57Z
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- dc.date.issued 2001-01-01
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- dc.description.abstract Estimates of the e¤ect of education on GDP (the social return to education)have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return. We present a simple explanation that combines two ideas: imperfect substitution between worker types and endogenous skill biased technological progress. When types of workers are imperfect substitutes, the supply of human capital is negatively related to its return, and a higher education level compresses wage di¤erentials. We use cross-country panel data on income inequality to estimate the private return and GDP data to estimate the social return. The results show that the private return falls by 2 percentage points when the average education level increases by a year, which is consistent with Katz and Murphy's [1992] estimate of the elasticity of substitution between worker types. We find no evidence for dynamics in the private return, and certainly not for a reversal of the negative e¤ect as described in Acemoglu [2002]. The short run social return equals the private return.
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- dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=942
- dc.identifier.citation Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 90 (1), pp. 89-104. February 2008
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/777
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 942
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- dc.subject.keyword growth
- dc.subject.keyword inequality
- dc.subject.keyword education
- dc.subject.keyword private and social return to schooling
- dc.subject.keyword compression effect
- dc.subject.keyword Macroeconomics and International Economics
- dc.title Education, growth and income inequalityca
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