Education, mobility and redistribution

Pierre Pestieau and Maria Racionero

ANU Working Papers in Economics and Econometrics from Australian National University, College of Business and Economics, School of Economics

Abstract: Recent evidence suggests that social mobility has declined in many developed countries despite some of them pursuing proactive redistribution policies. In this paper we characterize the optimal mix of income tax and education policies that a government should adopt to maximize a long-term social objective that includes considerations for income redistribution and upward mobility. We show that switching from an elitist to a meritocratic education system, or from a short-term to a long-term vision of social welfare, fosters upward mobility but it can sometimes lead to increased inequality

Keywords: social mobility; education policy; Great Gatsby curve (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H21 H31 H52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-09
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