This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

, individual occupational choices and education decisions, we show that the distribution of incomes was being affected, on the one … hand, by a decline in average returns to both education and experience, a negative ?growth? effect and immiserizing changes … hand by an increase in educational endowments across the distribution, and a progressive reduction in dependency ratios …

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 …

concentration on inequality are not sizeable, the impact on wages for skilled and unskilled workers is significant. …We examine the impact of changes in local labor market concentration on two components of income inequality in Mexico …: local wage shares and labor income inequality. Combining data from the Economic Census and the Population and Housing …

's stock of human capital. This paper considers how markets and non-market institutions determine the quantity, wages, skills …, and spatial distribution of teachers in developing countries. Schools are a major source of employment in developing … markets in developing countries are likely to grow further as teacher quality becomes a greater focus of education policy …

Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s …. This paper estimates a model of earnings inequality across OECD countries that incorporates determinants of relative demand … have exerted upward pressure on inequality. The estimated model is used to decompose historical changes in earning …

provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …

across the distribution. Furthermore, there are no clear signs that this situation should change in the coming decades. …