教育是人力資本形成的重要因素,提升教育水平是各國政府積極追求的目標,臺灣從1968年實施九年國民教育,臺灣的教育不均度開始逐年下降,表示教育分配越平均,但臺灣的所得差距卻逐年提升,代表所得分配的惡化。大部份文獻都關注在所得不均,顯少聚焦在教育不均上,本研究將以1999年到2014年臺灣各縣市區域資料,探討教育不均度與所得差距之間的關係。現今各縣市由於交通運輸方便,但因各縣市地理位置、文化和政府政策等不同因素,每個縣市的教育發展以及所得差距,除受自身影響外,也會受到鄰近縣市外溢效果的影響,所以必須考慮區域資料有空間自相關,故本研究將使用空間計量模型,避免有遺漏變數問題造成結果偏誤,並使用聯立方程式消除兩者間內生性。 實證結果為教育不均度與所得差距皆有正的空間相關性,即各縣市間存在教育不均外部性和所得差距外部性,因此教育不均與所得差距會因為空間外溢效果受到鄰近區域的影響,教育越平均的縣市會互相相鄰,所得差距越小的縣市會互相相鄰。教育不均度與所得差距的關係為負相關,所得差距擴大會造成教育不均下降和教育不均下降會使所得差距擴大,可能原因為所得差距擴大使窮人越有意願提升學歷獲得好工作改善生活,所以教育不均度會下降,而教育不均度下降會使雇主提供更低的薪資給教育程度較差的人,進而擴大所得差距。
Education is an important factor in the formation of human capital. Improving the educational level is an objective pursued by governments. Taiwan has implemented nine-year national education since 1968. The educational inequality in Taiwan has been declining yearly, but the the income gap has increased year by year. Most of the literature is concerned about the uneven distribution of income and the lack of focus on education inequality. This study will use regional data from 1999 to 2014 in Taiwan to explore the relationship between education inequality and income gap. Each county and city is convenient for transportation, but due to different factors such as the geographical location, culture, and government policies of each county and city, the educational development and income gap of each county and city will be affected by the spillover effects of neighboring counties and cities in addition to their own influence. Therefore, this study will use the spatial econometric model to avoid the bias caused by omitted variables and use simultaneous equations to eliminate the endogenousness . The empirical result is that both educational inequality and income gaps have positive spatial autocorrelation.The more equal of counties and cities will be adjacent to each other, the smaller the difference between the county and city will be adjacent to each other. The educational inequality is negatively related to the income gap. The income gap will expand result in a decline in education inequality and a drop in education inequality, which will increase the income gap. This may due to the widening income gap, the greater the willingness of the poor to upgrade their academic qualifications, and the better job will improve their life, education inequality will decline, and unfair education will reduce employers' wages to people with poorer education, thus the income gap will expand.