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Podcast: Education, skills and wage inequality

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Applied Institute for Research in Economics
Dr Arpita Bhattacharjee and Dr Juliane Scheffel

Dr Arpita Bhattacharjee is a Teaching Fellow in Economics. Her current research interests focus on labour economics, development economics and micro-econometric methods. Juliane Scheffel is also a Teaching Fellow in Economics and her current research interests include: labour economics, development economics, health economics, migration, education, and elderly care.

Arpita Bhattacharjee and Juliane Scheffel sat at table with microphones

In this episode of the Research and Innovation Podcast, Drs Arpita Bhattacharjee and Juliane Scheffel discuss wage inequality, focusing on whether higher levels of education lead to income inequality and looking at skill bias in technological changes.

This podcast episode was recorded in June 2019. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk.

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A transcript is available here.

 

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