Education and wage inequality in Portugal
The main goal of this Master’s thesis is to identify the impact of education on changes in the Portuguese wage distribution using quantile regression methods. I explore the counterfactual decomposition method proposed by Machado and Mata(2005) to decompose changes in the wage distribution from 1994...
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| Formato: | masterThesis |
| Idioma: | eng |
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2021
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| Texto completo: | http://hdl.handle.net/10362/121899 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:run.unl.pt:10362/121899 |
| Resumo: | The main goal of this Master’s thesis is to identify the impact of education on changes in the Portuguese wage distribution using quantile regression methods. I explore the counterfactual decomposition method proposed by Machado and Mata(2005) to decompose changes in the wage distribution from 1994 to 2018 into the factors contributing to those changes: composition effects (characteristics of the Portuguese working force) and structural effects (returns to those characteristics).The results show that education was a key factor contributing to higher wages but also greater wage inequality. |
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