Elitism in Higher Education and Inequality: Why Are the Nordic Countries So Special?

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Elise S. Brezis
Intereconomics, vol. 53(4), Springer, 2018 Jul, pp. 201–208

DOI: 10.1007/s10272-018-0750-7

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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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-018-0750-7

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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, doi:10.1007/s10272-018-0750-7.

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@article{brezis2018a,
  title = {Elitism in Higher Education and Inequality: Why Are the Nordic Countries So Special?},
  year = {2018},
  month = jul,
  issue = {4},
  journal = {Intereconomics},
  pages = {201–208},
  publisher = {Springer},
  volume = {53},
  doi = {10.1007/s10272-018-0750-7},
  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