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Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

Using data from the 2001-2005 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, and taking …

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Absolute Risk Aversion and the Returns to Education

Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

Survey on the Income and Wealth of Italian households. This measure, conditional on financial and real wealth and household … income, is used as an instrument for attained education in a standard log earnings equation. I find that, in line with the …

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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...

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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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A note on schooling and wage inequality in the public and private sector

Patrinos, Harry; Ridao-Cano, Cristobal; Sakellariou, Chris - In: Empirical Economics 37 (2009) 2, pp. 383-392

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The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain

Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Immigration to the UK, particularly among more educated workers, has risen appreciably over the past 30 years and as such has raised labor supply. However studies of the impact of immigration have failed to find any significant effect on the wages of native-born workers in the UK. This is...

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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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Returns to Education, Child Labor, & Schooling in India

Chamarbagwala, Rubiana - EconWPA - 2004

In an environment where children's time has an economic value and employment opportunities for educated workers are … scarce, parental investments in their children's education may not be driven entirely by poverty and credit constraints. We … offer evidence that children's participation in child labor and schooling responds to economic returns to education in India …

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Is there a Return-Risk Link in Education?

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Risk averse investors have to be compensated in higher expected returns when facing investments with higher risk. Education is an important investment therefore we use the results for 16 countries to test the positive relationship between return to education and the risk involved in this...

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