Author(s): Budría, Santiago ; Pereira, Pedro Telhado
Date: 2011
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/3895
Origin: DigitUMa - Repositório da Universidade da Madeira
Subject(s): Returns to education; Quantile regression; Wage inequality; Europe; Rentabilidad de la educación; Regresión quintílica; Desigualdad salarial; .; Faculdade de Ciências Sociais
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 last few decades, we describe changes in the conditional wage distribution of the surveyed countries. We find that in most European countries the amount of conditional wage dispersion within education groups is substantially higher and has grown faster among college-edu cated workers than among less educated workers
