Educational qualifications and wage inequalityevidence for Europe

  1. Budría, Santiago
  2. Telhado Pereira, Pedro
Revue:
Revista de economía aplicada

ISSN: 1133-455X

Année de publication: 2011

Volumen: 19

Número: 56

Pages: 5-34

Type: Article

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Résumé

En este artículo analizamos la conexión entre educación y desigualdad salarial en nueve países Europeos. Empleamos la técnica de la regresión quintílica para calcular, en diferentes puntos de la distribución salarial, la rentabilidad del primer y segundo ciclo de la educación secundaria y la rentabilidad de la educación. Utilizando datos de las últimas décadas, describimos cambios en la distribución condicional de los salarios en los diferentes países. Hallamos que en la mayoría de países la dispersión salarial condicionada dentro de los diferentes grupos educativos es mayor y ha aumentado más entre los trabajadores con educación universitaria que entre los trabajadores con menos estudios.

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