This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …

1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital …This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in … estimating the returns to education and experience. Recent analyses of education and wages have built on this foundation and have …

observed and are associated with income inequality, poverty, economic growth, public educational expenditures and assortative …The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among … series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over …

observed and are associated with income inequality, poverty, economic growth, public educational expenditures and assortative …The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among … series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over …

Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education …Formal education is widely thought to be a major determinant of individual earnings. This paper uses the American … censuses. The instrumental variables results suggest that schooling has a significant positive effect on worker wages …

experience that is associated with each percentile of the education-level specific wage distribution. In the second step, we map …In this paper we develop a novel method to project location-specific life-cycle wages for all occupations listed in the … Statistics data for each occupation and area. Finally, we develop a model capable of projecting the trajectory of wages across …

In this paper education simultaneously affects growth and income inequality. More education does not necessarily … decrease inequality when the latter is assessed by the Lorenz dominance criterion. Increases in education first increase and … then decrease growth as well as income inequality, when measured by the Gini coefficient. There is no clear functional …

improvements in the access to the education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within … inequalities in educational attendance across the income distribution. Interestingly, inequalities in attendance declines with … schooling years. We find great heterogeneity in the distribution of progress of education, with very little pro-poor progress in …