Income Inequality and Education Premia

Marco Lilla

Income Inequality and Education Premia

Marco Lilla

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Abstract

The paper attempts to measure income inequality and its changes over the period 1993-2000 for a set of 13 Countries in ECHP. Focusing on wages and incomes of workers in general, inequality is mainly analyzed with respect to educational levels as proxy of individual abilities. Estimation of education premia is performed by quantile regressions to stress differences in income distribution and questioning the true impact of education. The same estimates are used to decompose income inequality and show the rise in residual inequality.

Original language	English
Publisher	CEPS/INSTEAD
Number of pages	28
Publication status	Published - 2007
Externally published	Yes

Publication series

Name	IRISS Working Papers
Publisher	CEPS/INSTEAD
No.	2007-11

Keywords

education premium
inequality
quantile regression

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