Education is the elevator of Indonesian economy. Where education able to improve welfare society. However, development in Indonesia not evenly distributed. This inequality can be felt both between villages and cities as well regions Indonesia. In theory, occurrence educational will increase poverty rate which have an impact on decreasing economic growth. So this study we want examine effect gro...

Noncognitive Abilities and Within-Group Wage Inequality This paper argues that endogenous restructuring processes within firms towards productivityenhancing human resource activities, triggered by advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) and rising supply of educated workers, are typically associated with higher demand for noncognitive abilities. Consistent with the evolutio...

BACKGROUND Educational inequalities in total mortality in Norway have widened during 1960-2000. We wanted to investigate if inequalities have continued to increase in the post millennium decade, and which causes of deaths were the main drivers. METHODS All deaths (total and cause specific) in the adult Norwegian population aged 45-74 years over five decades, until 2010 were included; in all 7...

We study differential fertility and intergenerational mobility in an overlapping-generations framework with skilled and unskilled individuals. Assuming unskilled parents are less productive in educating children, we show that they choose higher fertility but less investment for child education than skilled parents. Public education reduces the fertility gap but may increase intergenerational mo...

This paper studies trends in education in Viet Nam in the 2000s. It focuses on access to education, inequality in the education system and education financing and provides an assessment of the effectiveness of educational activities supported by public spending. The first part of the study presents an overview of the education system in Viet Nam and the reform process of the public provision of...

This paper investigates the general equilibrium consequences of assuming that the time it takes an individual to obtain a skill depends on the average level of education in the neighborhood of his/her birth. These neighborhood e ects provide an incentive for the high educated to break-o and form an exclusive neighborhood. Economic segregation is implemented by a zoning requirement which speci e...