The Rise of the Educated Class

Joseph Zeira

No 16572, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: Recent decades have seen dramatic developments in Western countries, which happened in a number of areas, political, economic and social. These are the growing support for extreme political parties, mainly on the right. A shift in production specialization in the West, mainly in the US, from manufacturing to global services. The third change is the rapid spread of high education, which increased significantly the educated class since the end of WWII. This paper claims that these three processes have strong relations between them and affect one another significantly.

Keywords: Populism; Trade specialization; Globalization; Public education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E02 F6 H4 I24 N10 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-09
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