Rising human capital but constant inequality: the education composition effect in Brazil
This paper examines the impact of the education composition of the workforce and of the changing returns to schooling on the dispersion of male labor earnings in Brazil in the last twenty years. It applies a quantile regression approach to a polynomial on age, time and interactions, using repeated c...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Fundação Getúlio Vargas
2006-12-01
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| Series: | Revista Brasileira de Economia |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71402006000400005 |