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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

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Continuous training in Germany

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2000

Using data from the German Socio Economic Panel, I analyze the incidence, financing, and returns to workplace training in Germany for the years 1986 to 1989. Much of this training seems general, and is provided to workers by their employer at no direct cost. While workers typically report larger...

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Heterogeneous returns to human capital and dynamic self-selection

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2001

We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions and obtain individual specific estimates of the local (and average) returns to schooling as well as the returns to experience. Homogeneity of the returns to human capital is strongly rejected in favor of a discrete...

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Returns to education and wage equations

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2001

We show why considering a number of education-dependent covariates in the wage equation decreases coefficient of … education in the wage equation. We use a meta-analysis of results for Portugal to show, empirically, that this is the case. The … coefficient decreases when we use covariates that can be considered post education decisions; it is independent of the sample size …