Educational expansion and educational inequality on income distribution

This study examines the effects of educational variables on income distribution using cross-section data covering 59 countries. The empirical results show that a higher level of educational attainment of the labor force has an equalizing effect on income distribution, while the larger the dispersion of educational attainment among the labor force, the greater the income inequality. It is also found that the dispersion of schooling among the labor force has a much greater disequalizing effect on income equality than previous studies have suggested.