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Elise S. Brezis
Intereconomics, vol. 53(4), Springer, 2018 Jul, pp. 201–208
Intereconomics, vol. 53(4), Springer, 2018 Jul, pp. 201–208
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Brezis, E. S. (2018). Elitism in Higher Education and Inequality: Why Are the Nordic Countries So Special? Intereconomics, 53(4), 201–208.
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Brezis, Elise S. “Elitism in Higher Education and Inequality: Why Are the Nordic Countries So Special?” Intereconomics 53, no. 4 (July 2018): 201–208.
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Brezis, Elise S. “Elitism in Higher Education and Inequality: Why Are the Nordic Countries So Special?” Intereconomics, vol. 53, no. 4, Springer, July 2018, pp. 201–08.
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@article{brezis2018a,
title = {Elitism in Higher Education and Inequality: Why Are the Nordic Countries So Special?},
year = {2018},
month = jul,
institution = {},
issue = {4},
journal = {Intereconomics},
pages = {201–208},
publisher = {Springer},
volume = {53},
author = {Brezis, Elise S.},
month_numeric = {7}
}
Abstract
This paper shows that countries with higher elitism in higher-education are the countries displaying higher inequality. In other words, a higher level of ‘elitism’, i.e., higher gap in quality of universities, and tighter selection leads to a wider gap in wages between the tradable and service sectors, which leads also to a higher Gini index, and to a higher inclusive growth index.
This paper shows that the Nordic countries display lower elitism in higher education as well as lower inequality than most of the other OECD countries.
Keywords: elitism, higher education, separating equilibrium
