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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

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

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

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...

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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...

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Education and Italian Regional Development

Liberto, Adriana Di; Symons, James - Centre for Economic Performance, 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016914

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

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

"The Impact of Working while Enrolled in College on Wages"

Nelson, Wade; Jr, Owen Wade Nelson - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Those students who work while enrolled in college are investing in their human capital, and therefore, corporations … looking to employ new workers entering the labor market may favor these types of students, and create incentives for non …-working students to seek employment. Using NLSY97 data, this paper finds that working while enrolled in college decreases the wages one …

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