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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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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....
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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...
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This paper asks whether educational mismatches can account for the positive association between education and wage inequality found in the data. We use two different data sources, the European Community Household Panel and the Portuguese Labour Force Survey, and consider several types of...
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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...
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This study re-examines the causal relations between money and the two variables, i.e., income and prices. Using annual … causal relations between real money and real income, between nominal money and nominal income, and between nominal money and … prices. The analysis indicates, in general, the long run relationship among money, income, and prices. The analysis further …
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This study re-examines the causal relations between money and the two variables, i.e., income and prices. Using annual … causal relations between real money and real income, between nominal money and nominal income, and between nominal money and … prices. The analysis indicates, in general, the long run relationship among money, income, and prices. The analysis further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619787
the price hikes in the early 1970s. We investigate the casual relations between real money and real income, between … nominal money and nominal income, and between nominal money and prices using using the annual data set from 1959-60 to 2003 … case of income, the study finds the feed back mechanism of money, which is generally missing in the earlier studies …
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This paper attempts to look at the trends in income, money, and prices in Pakistan over the years. In addition, we also … 1970s. However, these expansions can be attributed to phenomenal expansions in prices. Real income, on the other hand …, improved marginally. Real income expanded significantly in the 1960s and remained stable till the 1980s but significantly …
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