Education and Earnings Inequality in Mexico
Author : Ulrich Lächler
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 33,28 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN :
Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality
Author : Maarten van Ham
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 303064569X
Book Description
This open access book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. It offers a unique global overview of segregation trends based on case studies by local author teams. The book shows important global trends in segregation, and proposes a Global Segregation Thesis. Rising inequalities lead to rising levels of socio-economic segregation almost everywhere in the world. Levels of inequality and segregation are higher in cities in lower income countries, but the growth in inequality and segregation is faster in cities in high-income countries. This is causing convergence of segregation trends. Professionalisation of the workforce is leading to changing residential patterns. High-income workers are moving to city centres or to attractive coastal areas and gated communities, while poverty is increasingly suburbanising. As a result, the urban geography of inequality changes faster and is more pronounced than changes in segregation levels. Rising levels of inequality and segregation pose huge challenges for the future social sustainability of cities, as cities are no longer places of opportunities for all.
Evolution of Earnings and Rates of Returns to Education in Mexico
Author : Gladys Lopez Acevedo
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Cambio tecnico - Mexico
ISBN :
Book Description
Inequality in education accounts for a large share of the inequality in earnings in Mexico. But the increase in earnings inequality does not appear to reflect a worsening in the distribution of education. The cause instead appears to be skill-biased technological change facilitated by increased economic openness.
Falling Inequality in Latin America
Author : Giovanni Andrea Cornia
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198701802
Book Description
This volume documents and explains the reduction of income inequality that has taken place in the majority of Latin American countries over the last decade.
Income Inequality and Government Transfers in Mexico
Author : Frederic Lambert
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1498326382
Book Description
We analyze microdata from Mexico's survey on household income and expenditures (ENIGH) to study the evolution of income inequality in Mexico over 2004-16, identify its sources, and investigate how it was affected by government social policy. We find evidence of only a small decline in inequality over this period. The observed decline may be attributed to government transfers, notably targeted cash transfers (Prospera) and non-contributory pensions. In 2016, those two programs accounted for more than two thirds of the reduction in the Gini coefficient due to government transfers. Other transfer programs such as farmland subsidies (Proagro), government scholarships, and non-monetary transfers for medical expenditures have not been as effective.
Globalization and Poverty
Author : Ann Harrison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 13,99 MB
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226318001
Book Description
Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.
Income Inequality
Author : Brian Keeley
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 2015-12-21
Category :
ISBN : 9789264246003
Book Description
Income inequality is rising. A quarter of a century ago, the average disposable income of the richest 10% in OECD countries was around seven times higher than that of the poorest 10%; today, it's around 9½ times higher. Why does this matter? Many fear this widening gap is hurting individuals, societies and even economies. This book explores income inequality across five main headings. It starts by explaining some key terms in the inequality debate. It then examines recent trends and explains why income inequality varies between countries. Next it looks at why income gaps are growing and, in particular, at the rise of the 1%. It then looks at the consequences, including research that suggests widening inequality could hurt economic growth. Finally, it examines policies for addressing inequality and making economies more inclusive.
How Mexico's Financial Crisis Affected Income Distribution
Author : Gladys Lopez Acevedo
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
After Mexico's financial crisis in 1994, the distribution of income and labor earnings improved. But financial income and rising labor earnings in higher-income brackets are growing sources of inequality in Mexico.
The Race between Education and Technology
Author : Claudia Goldin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 10,48 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674037731
Book Description
This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors propose that the twentieth century was not only the American Century but also the Human Capital Century. That is, the American educational system is what made America the richest nation in the world. Its educational system had always been less elite than that of most European nations. By 1900 the U.S. had begun to educate its masses at the secondary level, not just in the primary schools that had remarkable success in the nineteenth century. The book argues that technological change, education, and inequality have been involved in a kind of race. During the first eight decades of the twentieth century, the increase of educated workers was higher than the demand for them. This had the effect of boosting income for most people and lowering inequality. However, the reverse has been true since about 1980. This educational slowdown was accompanied by rising inequality. The authors discuss the complex reasons for this, and what might be done to ameliorate it.
The Distribution of Mexico's Public Spending on Education
Author : Gladys Lopez Acevedo
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 21,43 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Public spending on tertiary education in Mexico is strongly regressive, benefiting mainly the nonpoor in urban areas. To give the poor a chance at higher education, student loan programs or means-tested financial aid and scholarship programs (though rarely devoid of subsidy) are preferable to free education services, because loan and aid programs target the students who suffer from the financial market's failure to provide long-term loans for higher education.
