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Education and Wage Inequality in Portugal

Budria, Santiago; Nunes, Celso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This article summarises the recent literature on the relationship between inequality in wages and education for Portugal. The main conclusions are the following. First, Portu-gal is one of the OECD countries with lowest educational level. At the same time, re-turns to education are large, and...

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Heterogeneous Returns to Education Over Wage Distribution: Who Prots the Most?

Balestra, Simone; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2013

This study presents evidence of heterogeneous returns to education over the wage distribution. The authors use instrumental variable quantile regression and data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey to identify the causal link between education and wages at dierent quantiles of the conditional...

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The Dynamics of Returns to Education in Kenyan and Tanzanian Manufacturing

Teal, Francis; Söderbom, Måns - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

The returns to education remain a central concern for development policy. In developed countries there is evidence that the returns to education have been rising. Evidence for changes over this period for developing countries is limited. In this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to...

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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets

Black, Sandra E; Devereux, Paul J; Lundborg, Petter; … - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2015

markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people … spouses or children. …

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DIFFERENT IMPACT CHANNELS OF EDUCATION ON POVERTY

DÍAZ, BLANCA ZULUAGA - In: ESTUDIOS GERENCIALES (2010)

income equation - but as a set of elements whoselength depends on the number of identifi ed poverty dimensions. The … monetaryanalysis employs the Quantile Regression technique, very helpful especiallywhen one is interested in extremes of the income …

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Language Skills and Economic Returns

Garrouste, Christelle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This article focuses on the contributions from the emerging positivist epistemological approach, endorsed by the economics of language and the economics of education, to study the returns to language skills, assuming that language competencies constitute key components of human capital. It...

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Education and Italian regional development

Di Liberto, Adriana; Symons, James - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

Given recent emphasis on externality to education, macroeconomic studies have a role to play in the analysis of return to schooling. In this paper we study the connection between growth and human capital in a convergence regression for the panel of Italian regions. We include measures of...

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Sheepskin or prozac: the causal effect of education on mental health

Chevalier, Arnaud; Feinstein, Leon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Mental illness is associated with large costs to individuals and society. Education improves various health outcomes but little work has been done on mental illness. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of education on mental health, we rely on a rich longitudinal dataset that contains...

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Does the labour market explain lower female schooling in India?

Gandhi Kingdon, Geeta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

Labour market discrimination against women and parental discrimination against daughters are two of the most commonly cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market explanation for India using household survey data...

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Benefits to elite schools and the formation of expected returns to education: Evidence from Mexico City

Estrada, Ricardo; Gignoux, Jérémie - HAL - 2014

We study the effects of admission into elite public high schools in Mexico City on students' expected earnings, arguing …-based allocation of students into schools and an adapted regression discontinuity design strategy, we find that admission substantially … increases learning achievement, and also the future earnings and returns students expect from a college education, but no effect …

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