Does education reduce wage inequality? Quantile regression evidence from 16 countries

by: Pedro S Martins, Pedro T Pereira

Labour Economics, Vol. 11, No. 3. (June 2004), pp. 355-371.

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Abstract

Quantile regression estimates of returns to education are used to address the relation between schooling and wage inequality. Empirical evidence for male workers from 16 countries for the mid-1990s suggests a robust stylised fact: Returns to schooling are higher for the more skilled individuals, conditional on their observable characteristics. This suggests that schooling has a positive impact upon within-levels wage inequality. Factors such as over-education, ability-schooling interactions and school quality or different fields of study may be driving this result.

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