Efecto del gasto en educación en la desigualdad de ingreso en Ecuador

Excessive income inequality represents a socioeconomic problem within Ecuador, since the economic distribution is concentrated in a small percentage of the population, unleashing poverty and deprivation of goods and services, thus 60% of the population received 29% of total income (Central Bank of Ecuador, 2018). In response to this reality, education aims to be the decisive tool in reducing income inequality, therefore, the objective of the research is to examine the relationship between spending on education and income inequality in Ecuador in the period 1987- 2018. For the research, time series data published by the World Bank (2019) and the Index of Economic Freedom (2020) were used, the methodology used comprises the autoregressive distributed lags model (ARDL) and the Granger causality test (1969 ). The result found for the short term, shows that only the integrity of the government contributes to the reduction of income inequality, while spending on education and gross fixed capital formation tends to accentuate inequality, otherwise it occurs for the long term by verifying cointegration, confirming that spending on education, gross fixed capital formation and integrity of government explain the decrease in income inequality, and finally, it is evidenced that the integrity of government unidirectionally causes inequality of income and spending in education. With respect to the policy implications, the Ministry of Education is recommended to deploy pedagogical programs that enable the development of skills, knowledge and capacities for the effective generation of prepared human capital. Similarly, policy makers are suggested to toughen criminal penalties for those involved in corrupt acts.

• 1. Verfasser: Mira Rojas, Francisco Josue (author)
• Format: bachelorThesis
• Sprache: spa
• Veröffentlicht: 2020
• Schlagworte: ECONOMIA; ECONOMETRÌA; CAPITAL FÌSICO; CORRUPCIÒN
• Online Zugang: https://dspace.unl.edu.ec/jspui/handle/123456789/23721