main conclusion is that while education may be important to explain total inequality, there is no evidence that mass …We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1 …% of the labor earnings distribution. We use university courses data from the Sample Questionnaire of the 2010 Census. Our …

main conclusion is that while education may be important to explain total inequality, there is no evidence that mass …We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1 …% of the labor earnings distribution. We use university courses data from the Sample Questionnaire of the 2010 Census. Our …

This paper uses parametric and semiparametric techniques to examine educational inequality by geographical areas in …

from each other. The imputed income from publicly provided education reduces inequality by between 3 and 4 Gini points and …Publicly provided education is both an important public expenditure and a relevant in-kind transfer, often to the … poorest households. This paper compares three methods to value education services and their distributive impact. The methods …

from each other. The imputed income from publicly provided education reduces inequality by between 3 and 4 Gini points and …Publicly provided education is both an important public expenditure and a relevant in-kind transfer, often to the … poorest households. This paper compares three methods to value education services and their distributive impact. The methods …

Job-Schooling mismatch and wages has received too much attention from developed countries researchers. The last two … decades has provided a lot of empirical evidences on the incidence of over and under-education across developed countries in … different periods, and returns on ORU (over-education, required education, and under-education). A recent wave of empirical …

such situation is to improve the quality of education which, in turn, depends on the correct identification of the … investment priorities on the different levels of education, due to government budgetary restriction. Therefore, the present study … main goal is to analyze which one is the most important level of education on income generation and economic growth in …

includes those that left the labor force) and implied a relative increase in real hourly wages (although lower than observed …

. To do so, I two-sector matching model developed in Ulyssea (2004) where workers and firms negotiate wages (through a Nash …