Human capital and the reduction of inequalities: an intra-national analysis in Italy.

Autor/inn/en	Odoardi, Iacopo; D'Ingiullo, Dario; Furia, Donatella
Titel	Human capital and the reduction of inequalities: an intra-national analysis in Italy. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Humankapital und der Abbau von Ungleichheiten: eine intra-nationale Analyse in Italien.
Quelle	In: Applied economics, 52 (2020) 57, S. 6215-6228 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0003-6846; 1466-4283
DOI	10.1080/00036846.2020.1788708
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Soziale Ungleichheit; Humankapital; Einkommensverteilung; Sozialkapital; Erwerbsbevölkerung; Auswirkung; Regionaler Vergleich; Italien
Abstract	"Human capital is a fundamental economic resource in the knowledge economy era, and improvements in education are usually associated with both economic development and the reduction of inequality. In Italy, these relationships are empirically controversial due to structural weaknesses (e.g., low improvements in labour productivity) and a poor capacity to leverage the returns from education. At the same time, the strong North-South dualism in the country suggests that there are inequalities in human capital endowment that may be exacerbated by the different responses of the regions to common problems. We test the effect of labour force human capital in Italy (observed through worker education level) on income inequality in the 2004-2016 period using regional data. The results suggest that the hypothesized mechanism works as expected in the more developed Centre-North, while structural difficulties hamper the reduction of inequality in the South, where, however, social capital plays a positive role in reducing the income inequalities." The study refers to the period 2004-2016. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2023/1