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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?

Almeida, André; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017

In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...

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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?

Almeida, Andre; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017

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Explaining the Growing Inequality in Wages Across Skill Levels

Brauer, David; Hickok, Susan - 2007

This article investigates two prominent explanations - technology and trade - for growing wage inequality by educational attainment. The analysis indicates a prominent role for technological improvements and a modest but still significant role for increased competition from imports

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Trade and the Skill Premium in Developing Countries : The Role of Intermediate Goods and Some Evidence from Peru

Mazumdar, Joy; Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam - 2014

The rise in income inequality in developing countries after trade liberalization has been a puzzle for trade theory, which predicts the opposite effect. The authors present a model with imported intermediate goods in which the relative wages of skilled labor can rise due to higher imports of...

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Non-wage job values and implications for inequality

Lehmann, Tobias - 2023

I study inequality in job values, both in terms of wages and non-wage values, in Austria over the period 1996 to 2011. I show that differences in non-wage job value between firms are non-parametrically identified from data on worker flows and wage differentials. Intuitively, firms with high...

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Background wage premia, beyond education : firm sorting and unobserved abilities

Bonacini, Luca; Patriarca, Fabrizio; Santoni, Edoardo - 2024

traditional role of education. We first apply a two-way fixed-effects wage estimation, a' la AKM, to the Italian private sector …

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Skill premium, labor supply and changes in the structure of wages in Latin America

Fernández, Manuel; Messina, Julián - 2017

Earnings inequality declined rapidly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile during the 2000s. A reduction in the experience premium is a fundamental driver of declines in upper-tail (90/50) inequality, while a decline in the education premium is the primary determinant of the evolution of lower-tail...

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Skill premium, labor supply and changes in the structure of wages in Latin America

Fernández, Manuel; Messina, Julián - 2017

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Einkommen und Einkommensverteilung anhand der ersten Ergebnisse für die neuen und alten Bundesländer 1991

Merz, Joachim; Kirsten, Dagmar - 1995

Die Studie untersucht die Einkommen und die Einkommensverteilung der Freien Berufe anhand der Mikrozensusergebnisse für … Einkommensverteilung zunächst der Selbständigen in Freien Berufen mit entsprechenden Lageparametern und Verteilungsangaben analysiert. Die …-Selbständige) gegenübergestellt. Dem Einkommen und der Einkommensverteilung der selbständigen Frauen in Freien Berufen im Vergleich zu den Männern ist …

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Liberal Professions in the Microcensus II - Income and Income Distribution : First Results for East and West Germany in 1991

Merz, Joachim - 2009

concerning the western parts and the former eastern communist areas of the unified Germany. It follows the elementary paper about …

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