Educational qualifications and wage inequality: evidence for Europe

In this paper we investigate 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. Using data from the...

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Main Author: Budría, Santiago (author)
Other Authors: Pereira, Pedro Telhado (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Returns to education
Quantile regression
Wage inequality
Europe
Rentabilidad de la educación
Regresión quintílica
Desigualdad salarial
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Faculdade de Ciências Sociais
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/3895
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:digituma.uma.pt:10400.13/3895

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/3895

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