Does Greater Accessibility to Higher Education Reduce Wage Inequality? The Case of the Arab Minority in Israel

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Access to Education; Higher Education; Minority Groups; Arabs; Foreign Countries; Educational Change; Educational Attainment; Laws; Salary Wage Differentials; Labor Market; Policy Analysis; Employment Potential; Statistical Analysis; Least Squares Statistics

10.1080/03075079.2015.1076781

0307-5079

Many studies assessing national policy reforms in education focus on the likelihood of acquiring an advanced education and the associated returns in the labor market. In this paper, the authors investigate the impact of the Israeli Academic Colleges Law that was designed to promote the acquisition of higher education among all segments of the Israeli population. They found that this law, in fact, contributed to making higher education accessible more to the Israeli Arab minority than to the rest of the population. In addition, they demonstrate that the influence of the law on improving access to higher education is reflected in the increase in the earning potential of Israeli Arabs.

As Provided

64

2017

EJ1135679