Age-specific Education Inequality, Education Mobility and Income Growth. WWWforEurope Working Paper No. 6
WWWforEurope: Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe, Juni 2013, 30 Seiten
Auftraggeber: Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien – Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH – Österreichische Austauschdienst-GesmbH – Europäische Kommission, Rahmenprogramm
Studie von: Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
We construct a new dataset of inequality in educational attainment by age and sex at the global level. The comparison of education
inequality measures across age groups allows us to assess the effect of inter-generational education attainment trends on
economic growth. Our results indicate that countries which are able to reduce the inequality of educational attainment of
young cohorts over time tend to have higher growth rates of income per capita. This effect is additional to that implied by
the accumulation of human capital and implies that policies aiming at providing broad-based access to schooling have returns
in terms of economic growth that go beyond those achieved by increasing average educational attainment.
Forschungsbereich:Arbeitsmarktökonomie, Einkommen und soziale Sicherheit – Makroökonomie und öffentliche Finanzen