Rising costs of and returns to college have led to sizeable increases in the demand for
student loans in many countries. In the USA, student loan default rates have also risen for …

The literature provides several scalar measures of gender wage discrimination that cannot
identify whether discrimination is greater among high earners or among low earners …

This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994–2002
period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using ordinary least squares and …

Der Bericht Benchmarking Deutschland beurteilt den Wirtschafts-und Sozialstandort
Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Entwicklung des …

This study investigates the role of race, family background and education in earnings
inequality between whites and the African descendent population in Brazil. It uses quantile …

Portugal has one of the highest levels of income inequality in Europe, and low wages and
unemployment are concentrated among low skill individuals. Education is an important …

This paper explores the connection between education and wage inequality in nine
European countries. We exploit the quantile regression technique to calculate returns to …

Massification is an undeniable phenomenon in the higher education arena. However, there
have been questions raised regarding the extent to which a mass system really corresponds …

Typically estimates of the benefits of education investments show average private rates of
return for the average individual. The average may not be useful for policy. An examination …

In this article we apply quantile regressions to investigate the evolution of Educational Wage
Premia (EWP) in Italy from 1993 to 2004. Using the Survey of the Household Income and …