Educational qualifications and wage inequality: evidence for Europe
"This paper explores the connection between education and wage inequality in nine European countries. We exploit the quantile regression technique to calculate returns to lower secondary, upper secondary and tertiary education at different points of the wage distribution. We find that returns t...
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| Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
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| Language: | English |
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2005
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| Online Access: | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19295844124910130269-educational-qualifications-and.htm |
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| author | Budria, Santiago Telhado Pereira, Pedro |
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| description | "This paper explores the connection between education and wage inequality in nine European countries. We exploit the quantile regression technique to calculate returns to lower secondary, upper secondary and tertiary education at different points of the wage distribution. We find that returns to tertiary education are highly increasing when moving from the lower to the upper quantiles. This finding suggests that an educational expansion towards tertiary education is expected, ceteris paribus, to increase overall wage inequality through the withindimension. Returns to secondary education are more homogeneous across quantiles, thus suggesting that an educational expansion towards secondary education is expected to have a more limited impact on within-groups dispersion. Using data from the last decades, we assess how the impact of education on wage inequality has evolved over time. We detect different trends across countries. A common feature is that the inequality increasing effect of tertiary education became more acute over the last years." |
| format | TEXT |
| geographic | Finland France Germany Greece Italy Norway Portugal Sweden United Kingdom |
| id | 19295844124910130269_5b7a60a99d4942ca9b35f1f8616e301c |
| institution | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
| is_hierarchy_id | 19295844124910130269_5b7a60a99d4942ca9b35f1f8616e301c |
| is_hierarchy_title | Educational qualifications and wage inequality: evidence for Europe |
| language | English |
| physical | 39 p. Digital |
| publishDate | 2005 |
| publisher | Bonn IZA |
| spellingShingle | Budria, Santiago Telhado Pereira, Pedro adult education education educational level statistics wage differential wages Educational qualifications and wage inequality: evidence for Europe |
| thumbnail | https://www.labourline.org/Image_prev.jpg?Archive=118017993629 |
| title | Educational qualifications and wage inequality: evidence for Europe |
| topic | adult education education educational level statistics wage differential wages |
| url | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19295844124910130269-educational-qualifications-and.htm |