Education is widely recognized as one of the most important determinants of earnings in the labour market. A main … aspect of the relationship between education and earnings is the wage premium between workers with higher and lower education …. In this study I analyze the evolution of wage premiums of attaining further education in the Republic of Cyprus. The …

We hypothesize that the role of education in driving wage inequality is not the same across three racial groups in the … United States. Using the Current Population Survey (CPS) data for the period 2000-2021, we show that education weighs at most … 33% in explaining the wage inequality. Further, we observe a decrease in the role of education in explaining wage …

/or better education. These groups are characterized by higher relative wages as well as higher within-group wage inequality …

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …

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 …