An Empirical Study on the Impact of Educational Gap on Income Gap

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10.2991/icesem-17.2017.127How to use a DOI?

Keywords

education gap; income gap; Gini coefficient; years of education

Abstract

Both in theory and in experience, education is considered as an effective means of promoting economic growth, increasing household income and reducing income inequality. It is not clear whether the reform of education system in recent years has redefined the relationship between education gap and income gap. Based on the data of six provinces and cities in different parts of China in 1996-2015, we use panel data regression to analyze and prove that the extent to which the income gap is affected by education has risen and education inequality has greatly affected income inequality. Besides, although the narrowing of the education gap has not significantly improved income inequality, there is no denying that education expansion is conducive to control the income distribution gap.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Yu Wang
AU  - Hongmei Li
PY  - 2017/10
DA  - 2017/10
TI  - An Empirical Study on the Impact of Educational Gap on Income Gap
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Education Science and Economic Management (ICESEM 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 560
EP  - 563
SN  - 2352-5398
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