College Attainment, Income Inequality, and Economic Security. A Simulation Exercise.

Autor/inn/en	Hershbein, Brad J.; Kearney, Melissa S.; Pardue, Luke W.
Institution	W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research (Kalamazoo, Mich.)
Titel	College Attainment, Income Inequality, and Economic Security. A Simulation Exercise. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Hochschulbildung, Einkommensungleicheit und wirtschaftliche Sicherheit. Eine Simulation.
Quelle	Kalamazoo, Mich. (2020), 40 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (Preprint) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Upjohn Institute working paper. 319
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
DOI	10.17848/wp20-319
Schlagwörter	Bildungsbeteiligung; Soziale Ungleichheit; Bildungsertrag; Armut; Wirtschaftslage; Einkommensverteilung; Hochschulbildung; Studium; Auswirkung; USA
Abstract	"We conduct an empirical simulation exercise that gauges the plausible impact of increased rates of college attainment on a variety of measures of income inequality and economic insecurity. Using two different methodological approaches'a distributional approach and a causal parameter approach'we find that increased rates of bachelor's and associate degree attainment would meaningfully increase economic security for lower-income individuals, reduce poverty and near-poverty, and shrink gaps between the 90th and lower percentiles of the earnings distribution. However, increases in college attainment would not significantly reduce inequality at the very top of the distribution." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2020/3