increase in the payoff to this education) implies increasing within generation inequality and, by reinforcing already existent …; gender differences; and the poor education performance of men at the lower end of the education distribution. …In this paper, we discuss the quest for more and more education and its implications for social mobility. We document …

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

the determinants of the least squares bias of the wage return to education. We find that disregarding individual fixed …

by estimating the impact of schooling on measured test scores at various quantiles of the latent ability distribution. …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …

largest impact on the wages and employment of covered sector workers is in the lower half of the distribution. …This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings … Costa Rica. This country’s large uncovered sector and complex minimum wage policy, which has for decades set numerous wages …

costs influence insider wages and outsiders’ opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also …

by rigorously addressing the question as to whether changes in minimum wages can change the inequality of the … wages in the 1980s and 1990s acted as a countervailing force to the unequalizing effect of globalization. Using annual data … distribution of earnings. More specifically, we analyze whether changes in Costa Rica’s complex institution of multiple minimum …