RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND EDUCATION: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW
Income Distribution, Systematic Literature Review, Education, Economic Development.
Carrying out a systematic literature review allows scholars on the topic of income distribution and education to consolidate existing knowledge on this topic, by bringing together and synthesizing the findings of several studies already carried out. This enables a broader and deeper understanding of the relationship between income distribution and education. In this sense, the objective of this research is to find evidence about research on the relationship between income distribution and education based on international scientific literature. The systematic literature review technique was used based on the protocol developed by Tranfield, Denyer and Smart (2003) which covers three stages: (1) review planning; (2) carrying out the review and (3) disseminating knowledge. To this end, the textual corpus containing 128 primary articles was used based on strict sample selection criteria collected in the Scopus and Web of Science journal databases, aiming to answer the research problem. The results obtained for primary articles were stratified in an Excel spreadsheet through content analysis and using the bibliometric packages VOSviewer, Bibliometrix, Gephi and T-Lab Plus 2022, from which it was possible to assess the validity of the three main bibliometric laws regarding analysis of author productivity (Lotka's Law), journal productivity (Bradford's Law) and word cloud (Zipf's Law). Furthermore, this dissertation provides readers with a list of propositions about insights into the relationship investigated with a view to developing future work.