Social Status, Education, and Growth
Social Status, Education, and Growth
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社会地位、教育和成长
DOI：
10.1086/262019
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发表时间：
1996
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Y. Weiss
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文献类型：
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作者：
C. Fershtman;Kevin M. Murphy;Y. Weiss
本文研究了社会报酬对社会中人才配置的影响，进而对经济增长过程的影响。我们考虑了工人之间异质性的两个来源：非工资收入和先天能力。对地位的过分强调可能会导致“错误”的个体，即那些能力低、财富高的个体接受教育，导致能力高、财富低的劳动者离开促进增长的行业。单独来看，这种挤出效应阻碍了经济增长。更平等的财富分配可能会促进增长，从而降低对地位的需求。
This paper investigates the implications of social rewards on the allocation of talent in society and consequently on the process of economic growth. We consider two sources of heterogeneity among workers: nonwage income and innate ability. A greater emphasis on status may induce the "wrong" individuals, that is, those with low ability and high wealth, to acquire schooling, causing workers with high ability and low wealth to leave the growth-enhancing industries. This crowding-out effect, taken alone, discourages growth. Growth may be enhanced by a more egalitarian distribution of wealth, which reduces the demand for status.