regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time … - the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time … - the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

end of high school. Lucky students take exams in subjects they are better at, and we show that this generates significant … improvements in both their high school GPA and diploma probability. Subsequently, exam luck generates substantial and persistent …

degrees with the highest average earnings and underestimates the returns to degrees with the lowest average earnings. Second …, we decompose the impacts on earnings into effects on wage rates and effects on hours. For most degrees, the earnings … women. Third, we estimate the net present value and internal rate of return for each degree, which account for the time and …

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

entrants begin with little or no gender differences in earnings, but a wage gap gradually emerges over time closer to the … data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender wage gaps evolve over time, if at …