training. The theoretical intuition on the impact of wage floors on education is ambiguous. On the one hand, they raise the … opportunity cost of education and prevent further skill accumulation. On the other hand, they lower the employment probability of … workers declines which lowers the opportunity cost of education. High requirements with regard to professional skills …

We explore how government fragmentation affects public education provision by examining the case of Chile, which …

, 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 …

education by 5-year age intervals and by sex for a broad panel. We use the Gini index of education as a measure of the … country and for each age group. This approach can significantly improve the measurement of inequality in education by … producing estimates of the Gini Index of Education more realistic and reliable especially when it comes to international …

Together with the economic transition, in China the return to education and the skill premium increased; this … inequalities at national, regional and sector level. For this reason, these studies underlined the relevant role of education in … education distribution. In particular, we exploit the Theil index decomposition properties to distinguish between distributive …

Despite the lower quality of education provided Africans compared with whites in South Africa, the percentage wage … gains associated with additional years of primary, secondary, and higher education are substantially larger for Africans … than for whites in 1993, and they increase for both race groups at higher levels of education. The lower quantity (or …

education. Second, we will then seek to examine if education in different time periods - the late 1980s, the early 1990s and the … mid 1990s - can be associated with increasing access to off-farm jobs. Finally, we will examine how returns to education … rewarding those with a.) better education job access; b.) easier entry; and c.) higher wages, such outcomes will count as …