Can over-education account for the positive association between education and within-groups wage inequality?

• Author(s): Budría, Santiago
• Date: 2006
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/3312
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
• Subject(s): Returns to Education; Over-education; Quantile Regression
• Document Type: Working paper
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Repositório da Universidade dos Açores

Description

International evidence shows that conditional wage dispersion increases as we move towards more educated individuals. This paper asks whether over-education accounts for this fact. The answer is a resounding 'no'.