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Educational Choice, Lifetime Earnings Inequality, and Conflicts of Public Policy

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  • von Weizsäcker, Robert K

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Drawing on and extending the theory of human capital, a comprehensive life-cycle model of individual earnings is designed. The approach taken permits an isolated analysis of three interconnected levels of aggregation (intra-cohort distribution, overall distribution, and lifetime distribution) within the same dynamic microeconomic model of educational choice. In this way, interrelated economic, demographic, fiscal effects on earnings inequality are established. The paper reveals that reallocation reactions of optimizing individuals, combined with population heterogeneity by productive endowments, learning abilities, and working age, can destroy simple relationships between the standard of living, current earnings inequality, lifetime earnings inequality, and public distributional policy.

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  • von Weizsäcker, Robert K, 1994. "Educational Choice, Lifetime Earnings Inequality, and Conflicts of Public Policy," CEPR Discussion Papers 1014, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:1014
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    1. Weizsäcker, Robert K. von, 1995. "Does an Aging Population Increase Inequality?," Discussion Papers 535, Institut fuer Volkswirtschaftslehre und Statistik, Abteilung fuer Volkswirtschaftslehre.

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    Keywords

    Distributional Policy Conflicts; Earnings Inequality; Human Capital; Public Education;
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    JEL classification:

    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • H31 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Household
    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • J18 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Public Policy

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