Education, Economic Growth and Measured Income Inequality

Günther Rehme

Publications of Darmstadt Technical University, Institute for Business Studies (BWL) from Darmstadt Technical University, Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law, Institute for Business Studies (BWL)

Abstract: In this paper education simultaneously affects growth and income inequality. More education does not necessarily decrease inequality when the latter is assessed by the Lorenz dominance criterion. Increases in education first increase and then decrease growth as well as income inequality, when measured by the Gini coefficient. There is no clear functional relationship between growth and measured income inequality. The model identifies regimes of this relationship which depend crucially on the production and schooling technology. Conventional growth regressions with human capital and inequality as regressors may miss the richness of the underlying nonlinearities, but viewed as approximations may still provide important information on the nonlinear relationship between growth and education.

Date: 2008
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Published in Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics . 163 (2008)

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Working Paper: Education, Economic Growth and Measured Income Inequality (2006)
Working Paper: Education, Economic Growth and Measured Income Inequality (2006)
Working Paper: Education, economic growth and measured income inequality (2006)
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