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Increase In Income Inequality

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Several studies have investigated the entire distribution rather than its lower and upper ends, and focused on different groups that make up the distribution (Dahan, 2001; Kimhi & Shafir-Tidhar, 2012). Dahan (2001) referred to groups by levels of human capital. He examined three possible factors that can lead to the increase in income inequality - changes in the returns to human capital, changes in the distribution of human capital, and inequality among group members of the same human capital levels. He concluded that the rise in inequality is mostly a consequence of the change in the structure of the returns to human capital and the increase in inequality between individuals with the same measured human capital and not the changes of the distribution
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