Life conditions for teachers working in basic education are better than those of the average Brazilian working … throughout the country. When teachers' average salaries equal the average of the population with tertiary education, it would …

reduce inequality and poverty and only a significant scale-up of university education would lead to much lower levels of … only have occurred under optimistic assumptions about growth, job-skill matching, and non-declining returns to education …. In short, education is not a panacea to poverty and inequality. These results are robust when tested with different data …

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 … controlling for unobserved workers heterogeneity? (iii) Is over-education a deliberate investment decision of workers in their …