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Does Democracy Engender Equality?, John E. Roemer
Does Democracy Engender Equality?, John E. Roemer
Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers
Many suppose that democracy is an ethos which includes, inter alia, a degree of economic equality among citizens. In contrast, we conceive of democracy as ruthless political competition between groups of citizens, organized into parties. We inquire whether such competition, which we assume to be concerned with distributive matters, will engender economic equality in the long run. The society consists of an infinite sequence of generations, each comprised of adults and their children. Adults care about household consumption, and the future wages of their children, which are determined by educational policy. A given generation is characterized by the distribution of …
The Effect Of Educational And Residential Characteristics On The Private Return To Education, Dwight Adamson, James Swenson
The Effect Of Educational And Residential Characteristics On The Private Return To Education, Dwight Adamson, James Swenson
Economics Staff Paper Series
This paper attempts to investigate the individual wage rate of return to college education. Over the last twenty years, the return to college education has increased dramatically. We propose to investigate how the return to college differs across educational and residential characteristics. We first consider differential returns to an associate, bachelor, advanced, and professional degrees and what characteristics of an individual's college education influence the rate of return to different degrees. Secondly, we focus on the variation in the return to college education in different areas of residence by comparing the return to education across regions and metropolitan and nonmetropolitan …
Part 9: The State Of The Workforce, Regional Studies Institute, Old Dominion University
Part 9: The State Of The Workforce, Regional Studies Institute, Old Dominion University
State of the Region Reports: Hampton Roads
(First paragraph) Is the workforce as good (or as bad) as they say?
Public Environmental Information In The Texas-Mexico Border: Analysis, Issues And Directions For The Future, Dennis L. Soden, Janet S. Conary
Public Environmental Information In The Texas-Mexico Border: Analysis, Issues And Directions For The Future, Dennis L. Soden, Janet S. Conary
IPED Technical Reports
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