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Schooling and the distribution of wages in the European private and public sectors
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Abstract International research has shown that schooling enhances within-groups wage dispersion. This assessment is typically based on private sector data and, up to date, the inequality implications of schooling have not been documented for the public sector. This paper uses recent data from eight European ... view more
International research has shown that schooling enhances within-groups wage dispersion. This assessment is typically based on private sector data and, up to date, the inequality implications of schooling have not been documented for the public sector. This paper uses recent data from eight European countries to explicitly take into account differences between the private and public sectors. Using quantile regression, the paper describes the effects of schooling on the location and shape of the conditional wage distribution in each sector. While the average impact of schooling on wages is similar across sectors, the impact of schooling on within-groups dispersion is found to be substantially larger in the private sector than in the public sector. This finding warns that the effects of the European educational expansion on overall within-groups dispersion may be lower than previously thought.... view less
Keywords
EU; private sector; wage; wage difference; returns on education; public sector; distribution; level of education attained
Classification
Sociology of Education
Labor Market Research
Sociology of Economics
Free Keywords
returns to schooling; quantile regression; within-groups wage inequality
Document language
English
Publication Year
2010
Page/Pages
p. 1045-1054
Journal
Applied Economics, 42 (2010) 8
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840701721109
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)