Recent studies have used quantile regression (QR) techniques to estimate the impact of education on the location, scale …

of policy dialogues. Taiwan has gone beyond most countries in promoting vocational education and setting strict quotas … for schooling. Although the education plans do not have separate targets for men and women, they have gendered outcomes … earnings premium. Policy reforms based on relaxing education quotas and enforcing equal opportunity legislation would provide …

This paper analyses pecuniary and non-pecuniary effects of education on poverty. Two are the main contributions: first … the non-pecuniary returns to education: resources invested in education bring future returns to individuals, not only …

outputs are not that great. Uruguay is characterized by educational gaps and high drop-out rates in the secondary education … the hypothesis of the existence of a degree premium for those individuals that complete the secondary education (12 years … of education). As we find evidence that allows us to confirm the existence of the degree premium, we make conjectures and …