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Inequality and intergenerational mobility in Vietnam (2020_2_40_001)
Outline
Over the span of one generation of rapid economic growth in Vietnam, the Gini index of aggregate income inequality has remained quite stable. However, this obscures the wide variation in the distribution of gains across groups in society. The rapidly changing structure of output and employment is expanding opportunities in different ways for different groups. Among poorer households, those with the closest connections to dynamically growing urban and industrial labor markets are faring better. How uniformly will gains enjoyed by the current generation be transmitted to the next generation? What factors will explain variations in intergenerational mobility, and what will those variation mean for overall inequality and long-run economic growth? In this study we aim to examine intergenerational mobility through the channel of human capital investments, specifically education. We will examine these issues at the national scale, for the rural population as a whole, and within the rural population in targeted case studies. The project output will consist of publishable research papers with in-depth coverage based on appropriate data and methods at each scale, but that also benefit from the insights of research at other scales.
Period
April 2020 - March 2023
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