An empirical analysis on the impact of higher education on income inequality
An empirical analysis on the impact of higher education on income inequality
The study on the relationship between the higher education and income inequality is of great importance to exploring ways to reduce income inequality. With the macro-level time-series data of the United States from 1967 to 2015, this paper empirically tested the relationship between higher education and income inequality. The result indicated that there is a significant inverted-U relationship between higher education and income inequality, that is, when the higher education is not widely availa