Intergenerational Mobility and Unequal School Opportunity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreu Arenas ◽  
Jean Hindriks
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Intergenerational Mobility ◽  
Assortative Matching ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Intergenerational Income Mobility ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Income Dispersion ◽  
The Impact

Abstract We analyse the impact of unequal school opportunity on intergenerational income mobility and human capital accumulation. Building upon the classical Becker–Tomes–Solon framework, we use a regime-switch model allowing for differences in income transmission across groups. We find that unequal school opportunity raises average human capital because of assortative matching. However, because income dispersion tends to be higher at the top, in most cases unequal school opportunity decreases intergenerational mobility. Calibrating the model to the USA, simulations suggest that school equalisation and desegregation policies have positive effects on mobility at relatively small efficiency costs.

Human capital accumulation, income distribution, and economic growth: a demand-led analytical framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-336
Author(s):  
Gilberto Tadeu Lima ◽  
Laura Carvalho ◽  
Gustavo Pereira Serra
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Output Growth ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
Capital Utilization ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Long Run Equilibrium

This paper incorporates human capital accumulation through provision of universal public education by a balanced-budget government to a demand-driven analytical framework of functional distribution and growth of income. Human capital accumulation positively impacts on workers’ productivity in production and their bargaining power in wage negotiations. In the long-run equilibrium, a rise in the tax rate (which also denotes the share of output spent in human capital formation) lowers the pre- and after-tax wage share and physical capital utilization, and thus raises (lowers) the output growth rate when the latter is profit-led (wage-led). The impact of a higher tax rate on the employment rate (which also measures human capital utilization) in the long-run equilibrium is negative (ambiguous) when output growth is wage-led (profit-led). In any case, the supply of higher-skilled workers does not automatically create its own demand.

Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility

2019 ◽  
pp. 241-266
Author(s):  
George J. Borjas ◽  
Barry R. Chiswick
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Intergenerational Mobility ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
Accumulation Process ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Ethnic Capital

Assuming that ethnicity acts as an externality in the human capital accumulation process, this chapter analyzes the extent to which ethnic skill differentials are transmitted across generations. The skills of the next generation depend on parental inputs and on the quality of the ethnic environment in which parents make their investments, or “ethnic capital.” The empirical evidence reveals that the skills of today's generation depend not only on the skills of their parents, but also on the average skills of the ethnic group in the parents’ generation.

scholarly journals The impact of demographic change on human capital accumulation

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 659-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Fertig ◽  
Christoph M. Schmidt ◽  
Mathias G. Sinning
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Demographic Change ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF INCREASING RETIREMENT AGE ON HEALTH SERVICES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN BRAZIL

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
André Berardo Coelho ◽  
Nelson Leitão Paes
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Health Care Production

This paper uses the Zon and Muysken (2001) model to investigate the effect of increasing the retirement age on health care production, human capital accumulation, and economic growth. All three sectors are interrelated, since the overall level of health affects both workers and the accumulation of human capital, while a higher level of human capital is related to better quality of health. And, finally, health and human capital affect the output of the economy. From the economic growth point of view the results seem to be positive. Increasing labor availability raises productivity in the health sector, which ultimately improves labor productivity, resulting in increased capital accumulation and economic growth. On the other hand, it is estimated a reduction in the propensity to consume and a smaller portion of the labor force allocated in the health sector.

scholarly journals Corruption, Public Expenditure and Human Capital Accumulation

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-45
Author(s):  
Spyridon Boikos
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Parametric Method ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
Linear Effect ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Impact

This paper investigates the possible non-linear effect of corruption on human capital accumulation through two channels. The first channel is through the effect of corruption on the public expenditure on education and the second channel is through the effect of corruption on the physical capital investment. Initially, we construct an endogenous two-sector growth model with human capital accumulation and we try to explore the impact of corruption on the allocation of public expenditure and therefore on the distribution of human capital across sectors. Then by using a semi-parametric method, we confirm the presence of non-linearities between human capital and corruption.

scholarly journals The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Fertig ◽  
Christoph M. Schmidt ◽  
Mathias Sinning
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Demographic Change ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals The Heterogeneous Impacts of Human Capital on Green Total Factor Productivity: Regional Diversity Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hang Xiao ◽  
Jialu You
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Tobit Regression ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Heterogeneous Effects ◽  
Fiscal Spending

That human capital improves the efficiency of Green Total Factor Productivity has been established in research fields, but the heterogeneous effects of human capital on GTFP and its sustainable mechanisms are unclear. This study examines the effects of human capital accumulation, fiscal spending on education, and innovation on GTFP efficiency under spatial and temporal diversity. Employing panel data from 30 provinces from 2001 to 2018 in China, we analyzed the dynamic and static efficiency of GTFP in different regions by three-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA). The heterogeneous effects of human capital on GTFP were explored through Tobit regression. Results reveal that the average value of GTFP efficiency is an inverted U-shape and the presence of significant t geography differences. Human capital accumulation and fiscal spending on education have positive effects on GTFP efficiency; however, innovation negatively affects it. At the same time, marketization growth decreases the positive influence of human capital and education on GTFP efficiency. While, this effect was not observed regarding innovation, the implication of these results concerning the human capital heterogeneous effects of GTFP efficiency in a different geographic context. Establishing a fair and transparent system can reduce the endowments gap and effectively promote GTFP efficiency in developing countries.

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