This paper seeks to analyze labor earnings differences between workers with bachelor's degree and those with secondary education taking into account the heterogeneity across fields of study in the former group. Labor earnings differentials are decomposed to quantify the contribution of three...

This study investigates the pattern of overeducation among Brazilian graduates between 1980 and 2010. Making use of information from the last four population censuses, estimates show that changes in workers' demographic characteristics and shifts in the workers' distribution across fields of...

This article aims to investigate the evolution of the employment of Ph.D. holders in the Brazilian private sector between 2010 and 2021. The study is based on microdata on formal employment from the Annual Social Information Report (Rais), and it presents descriptive statistics regarding...

This study investigates the pattern of overeducation among Brazilian graduates between 1980 and 2010. Making use of information from the last four population censuses, estimates show that changes in workers’ demographic characteristics and shifts in the workers’ distribution across fields of...

This paper seeks to analyze labor earnings differences between workers with bachelor's degree and those with secondary education taking into account the heterogeneity across fields of study in the former group. Labor earnings differentials are decomposed to quantify the contribution of three...

This article aims to investigate the evolution of the employment of Ph.D. holders in the Brazilian private sector between 2010 and 2021. The study is based on microdata on formal employment from the Annual Social Information Report (Rais), and it presents descriptive statistics regarding...