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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neves, Henrique Robles Machado Duarte (author)
Format: masterThesis
Language:eng
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Wage inequality
Returns to education
Quantile regressions
Composition
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10362/121899
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:run.unl.pt:10362/121899

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http://hdl.handle.net/10362/121899

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