This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on job market signalling and on education as a job market … importance of relative education as an explanatory variable in a Mincerian- style wage equation. I find the conclusions of this … method to be dependent on the reference group used in defining relative education. Consequently also the second method yields …

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

education. While men with low skills out-earn their higher-skilled counterparts when they are very young, their earnings are …

policies. Some regional disparities are high and need to be reduced. High regional dispersion in education and job outcomes … lagging regions. Ensuring full portability of social and housing benefits across regions, by providing temporary assistance … to achieving a truly single market limit productivity growth of regions, including the most advanced. Reducing regulatory …

top of the education and income distribution (upward mobility) has increased. On the other hand, for children whose …

education. Second, we will then seek to examine if education in different time periods - the late 1980s, the early 1990s and the … mid 1990s - can be associated with increasing access to off-farm jobs. Finally, we will examine how returns to education … rewarding those with a.) better education job access; b.) easier entry; and c.) higher wages, such outcomes will count as …

stylized facts about the connection between the demographic transition and changes in education (the size and quality of the … labor force), with labor supply, inequality, and unemployment. The main conclusion is that demographics and education … about labor markets in Latin America. Although demographics and education move slowly through time and have a strong …