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Earnings Inequality, Returns to Education and Immigration into Ireland

Barrett, Alan; FitzGerald, John; Nolan, Brian - 2000

Increasing earnings inequality has been an important feature of the US and UK labour markets in recent years. The increase appears to be related to an increased demand for skilled labour and an increase in the returns to education. In this paper we examine what has happened to earnings...

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Within and between gender disparities in income and education benefits from democracy

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2007

There is data evidence that welfare has improved post democracy in Nigeria. However, the distribution or concentration of the benefits in subgroups of the population is unknown. In this paper, the question of differential welfare impacts, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is...

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Count your hours: returns to education in Poland

Myck, Michał; Nicinska, Anna; Morawski, Leszek - 2009

We show how significant may be the difference in the estimated returns to education in Poland conditional on the … conclusion. While there are several papers examining the wage equation in Poland, so far none of them has provided a … equation in Poland has not been examined in detail. Annual rates of return to university education for men vary from 6.7% to 9 …

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A cohort analysis of the income distribution in Chile

Sapelli, Claudio - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 223-242

In this paper we look at the income distribution by cohort in Chile. We construct a synthetic panel from cross section surveys and estimate the income distribution for cohorts born between 1902 and 1978. We then decompose the evolution of these distributions into age, year and cohort effects....

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Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2003

This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through his pioneering focus on labor market experience or on-the-job training. It begins with a brief discussion of the theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the...

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Brave new world? Value of education in post-socialist Poland

Aro, Mikko - 2004

, it is assumed that the situation of university-educated people improved considerably in Poland as well as in most other …

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The effects of taxes and benefits on income distribution in the enlarged EU

Paulus, Alari; Čok, Mitja; Figari, Francesco; … - 2009

Eastern European countries (Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia). We use EUROMOD, the European tax-benefit microsimulation …

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The Distribution of Wages in Poland, 1992-2002

Newell, Andrew; Socha, Mieczysław W. - 2005

This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about …

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Evaluating the impact of education on earnings in the UK: Models, methjods and results from the NCDS

Blundell, Richard W.; Dearden, Lorraine; Sianesi, Barbara - 2003

Regression, matching, control function and instrumental variables methods for recovering the impact of education on individual earnings are reviewed for single treatment and sequential multiple treatments with and without heterogeneous returns. The sensitivity of the estimates once applied to a...

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Using heteroscedasticity to estimate the returns to education

Hogan, Vincent; Rigobon, Roberto - 2003

We apply a new estimator to the measurement of the economic returns to education. We control for endogenous education, unobserved ability and measurement error using only the natural heteroscedasticty of wages and education attainment. Our prefered estimate, 6.07%, is closer to the OLS estimate...

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