of these changes has been less important in reducing income inequality. The main driving force of reduced income … inequality has been the fall in returns to education, which at the same time has been one of the important factors to …

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 …

We analyse the evolution and proximate determinants of labour income inequality in Mexico between 1989 and 2017. Labour … income inequality increased between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2006. What happened after 2006 is subject to … uncertainty. The national labour force survey shows a steady decline and the income expenditure survey suggests that inequality …

premium levels and changes within countries. For the literature on income inequality, these findings imply the need to pay …

overconfidence matters for gender inequality in the labor market and has implications for how firms recruit and promote workers …

This paper analyses the relationship between wage inequality and labour market development. Relevant economic theories … are ambiguous, just as public debates. We measure the effects of wage inequality, skill-biased and skill …-recursive long-runrestrictions.Results show that skill-biased technology shocks reduce hours worked but increase inequality …

job employment. This indicates that while overconfidence matters for gender inequality in the labor market and has …

Human capital models imply that both the distribution of education and returns to education affect earnings inequality …. Decomposition of these 'quantity' and 'price' components have been important in understanding changes in earnings inequality in … inequality, returns to schooling and earnings inequality. We focus on two main questions. What is the relationship between …