Income distribution, human capital and economic growth in Colombia

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Birchenall, JA
• 署名单位: University of Chicago
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3878(01)00162-6
• 发表日期: 2001
• 页码: 271-287
• 关键词: inequality; technological change and human capital

摘要

Colombian income distribution has followed a clear path during the last two decades: in the second half of the 1970s, human capital accumulation reduced the dispersion of income distribution, and lead to a period of stagnation between 1983 and 1990, when mobility declined. After the structural reforms (a skill-bias technological change), the wage differential for skilled workers increased inequality by a polarization in the bi-modal distribution of income. These topics are discussed in the paper along some dynamic aspects of income and educational mobility in Colombia. (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.