Changes in Population, Inequality and Human Capital Formation in the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
A Comparative Perspective
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The evolution of inequality and its causes are of crucial importance to all scholars working across the social sciences. By focusing on the divergent development of North America and Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Camps-Cura offers a comparative perspective of the relationship between human capital expansion and inequality in the long run. The book also explores the variables of education and inequality on children, work and gender.
The evolution of inequality and its causes are of crucial importance to all scholars working in the social sciences. By focusing on the divergent development of North America and Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Camps-Cura offers a comparative perspective of the relationship between human capital expansion and inequality in the long run. The book also explores the variables of education and inequality on children, work and gender.
Examines the impact of unequal distribution of human capital on income inequality Reflects on race, gender, religion and education in the evolution of inequality Provides a history of economic geography of the Americas
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Themen in »Changes in Population, Inequality and Human Capital Formation in the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries«
American economic history Human capital Inequality in the long run Latin American economic history Income inequality Human capital inequality Latin American inequality Race and inequality OECD countries Education and inequality American labour history Economic geography Gender inequality Education and gender Economics of religion