Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- 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
About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Changes in Population, Inequality and Human Capital Formation in the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Book Subtitle: A Comparative Perspective
Authors: Enriqueta Camps-Cura
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21351-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21350-3Published: 10 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-21351-0Published: 26 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 159
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 51 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, History of the Americas, Latin American and Caribbean Economics, North American Economics, Education Economics, Gender and Economics