income distributions. By matching inequality measures on test scores, years of education and labour earnings by country …, birth cohorts and gender, we show that inequality in education (measured both at quality and quantity levels) affect … earnings inequality. We then consider potential endogeneity of educational distributions and we resort to instrumental …

income distributions. By matching inequality measures on test scores, years of education and labour earnings by country …, birth cohorts and gender, we show that inequality in education (measured both at quality and quantity levels) affect … earnings inequality. We then consider potential endogeneity of educational distributions and we resort to instrumental …

-linear relationship between these two measures of inequality, actual data indicate that average years of education have a stronger …In this paper we propose to measure inequality of educational achievements by constructing a Gini index on educational … attainments. We then use the proposed measure to analyse the relationship between inequality in incomes and educational …