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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837544
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008645134
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Educational Qualifications and Wage Inequality: Evidence for Europe
Budria, Santiago; Telhado-Pereira, Pedro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper explores the connection between education and wage inequality in nine European countries. We exploit the quantile regression technique to calculate returns to lower secondary, upper secondary and tertiary education at different points of the wage distribution. We find that in most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790160
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The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain
Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Immigration to the UK, particularly among more educated workers, has risen appreciably over the past 30 years and as such has raised labor supply. However studies of the impact of immigration have failed to find any significant effect on the wages of native-born workers in the UK. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527530
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Wage inequality and returns to schooling in Europe: a semi-parametric approach using EU-SILC data
Biagetti, Marco; Scicchitano, Sergio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper we apply a semi-parametric approach (quantile regression - QR) to the last 2007 wave of the EU-SILC data set, in order to explore the connection between education and wage inequality in 8 European countries. We find that wages increase with education and this holds true across the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458508
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Inter-industry Wage Premia in Portugal: Evidence from EU-SILC data
Biagetti, Marco; Scicchitano, Sergio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper we investigate whether inequality in the inter-industry wage premia may be explained by unobserved differences in workers’ educational skills. We use the 2007 EU-SILC data set for Portugal, a nation which can be considered a case-study, due to its high inter-industry wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458518
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Does Speed Signal Ability? The Impact of Grade Repetitions on Employment and Wages
Brodaty, Thomas; Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Prieto, Ana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
the average school-leaving age of students holding the same certificate or degree. We use past school-opening instruments …, and distance-to-the-nearest-college, also measured in the past, when students were entering grade 6, to identify the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498114
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Education, Educational Mismatch, and Wage Inequality: Evidence for Spain
Budria, Santiago; Moro-Egido, Ana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
In this paper we explore the connection between education and wage inequality in Spain for the period 1994-2001. Drawing on quantile regression, we describe the conditional wage distribution of different populations groups. We find that higher education is associated with higher wage dispersion....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616902
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Can over-education account for the positive association between education and within-groups wage inequality? A note
Budria, Santiago - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
International evidence shows that returns to education are increasing when moving up along the wage distribution. While researchers have focused on the inequality implications of this finding, little attention has been paid to its causes. This paper asks whether the over-education phenomenon is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623325
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An econometric study of CO2 emissions, energy consumption, income and foreign trade in Turkey
Halicioglu, Ferda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
, income, and foreign trade in the case of Turkey using the time series data for the period 1960-2005. This research tests the … emissions are determined by energy consumption, income and foreign trade. In the case of second long-run relationship, income is … conducted amongst the variables. The long-run relationship of CO2 emissions, energy consumption, income and foreign trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837055