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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...

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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....

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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...

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Are educational mismatches responsible for the ‘inequality increasing effect’ of education?

Budria, Santiago - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

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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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...

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Analysis of Net Interstate Migration: Comment

Cebula, Richard; Schaffer, Beverly - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1974

rate and white income levels, whereas black migration should be a function of black unemployment rates and black income … per recipient (arguably because such states do less income redistribution) whereas black migrants prefer to move to higher … welfare states (where the welfare serves as a form of higher income and/or a form of higher unemployment insurance). …

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An Exploratory Note on Interstate Living-Cost Differentials

Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1985

living cost level is found to be an increasing function of population density, average income, and the degree of urbanization …

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Determinants of Interstate Migration, By Race, 1965-1970

Kohn, Robert; Vedder, Richard; Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1972

to move shorter rather than longer distances. White migrants were more likely to move to higher per capita income states …

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Impact of Property Taxes and Public Education Outlays on Housing Costs: Recent Empirical Evidence

Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

. Ordinary least squares results imply that the cost of housing is positively a function of median family income, miles of …

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Recent Evidence on Residential Electricity Consumption Determinants: A Panel Two-Stage Least Squares Analysis, 2001-2005

Cebula, Richard; Herder, Nate - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

cooling degree days, real per capita personal disposable income, and the real unit price of natural gas. Annual per …

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