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We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1 … main conclusion is that while education may be important to explain total inequality, there is no evidence that mass … education is a major factor explaining the differences between the rich and the rest of the population. Not even elite education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372144
We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1 … main conclusion is that while education may be important to explain total inequality, there is no evidence that mass … education is a major factor explaining the differences between the rich and the rest of the population. Not even elite education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509625
There is important evidence of a recent upsurge of so-called residual inequality, i.e. wage inequality that cannot be explained by workers? observable attributes, such as schooling. The main purpose of this article is to review the intuitions and results of some of the main theoretical models...
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premium for secondary education attained by young workers aged 20 to 24 in Brazil; as this could potentially lead to low … levels of interest for attending secondary schools. We take into account the endogeneity of education in the wage equation …
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premium for secondary education attained by young workers aged 20 to 24 in Brazil; as this could potentially lead to low … levels of interest for attending secondary schools. We take into account the endogeneity of education in the wage equation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013440500
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005732008
In the present article, we attempt to identify the sources of the changes in the labor schooling level in the three main sectors of the Brazilian economy: manufacturing, services and agriculture; based on the theoretical perspective of the three sectors hypothesis. It was verified that, despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008620634
One of the main socioeconomic problems observed in most countries – particularly in less developed countries – is the presence of high income inequality and poverty level. Several empirical works have attempted to analyze their major determinants as well as their effect on some indicators...
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compare working women against working men so that we can identify sex differentials stemming from the different gender roles …
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attributes: gender, experience and education. To relate the social indicators of employment/inequality to macroeconomic variables …
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