Elise S. Brezis

Elise S. Brezis

Professor of Economics

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Head, Forum Macro of Israel

Department of Economics

Bar-Ilan University, Israel

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

Journal article

Elise S. Brezis
Intereconomics, vol. 53(4), Springer, 2018 Jul, pp. 201–208
DOI: 10.1007/s10272-018-0750-7
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APA
Brezis, E. S. (2018). Elitism in Higher Education and Inequality: Why Are the Nordic Countries So Special? Intereconomics, 53(4), 201–208.

Chicago/Turabian
Brezis, Elise S. “Elitism in Higher Education and Inequality: Why Are the Nordic Countries So Special?” Intereconomics 53, no. 4 (July 2018): 201–208.

MLA
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.

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

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