We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

Previous studies on gender wage discrimination have relied on OLS when estimating the wage equations. However, there … exists a number of recent studies, devoted to estimating the return to education, that have shown that OLS may produce biased … estimates for a number of reasons. Consequently, if we neglect this potential bias in OLS when estimating the gender wage gap …