Rising human capital but constant inequality: the education composition effect in Brazil

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Autor(a) principal: Menezes-Filho,Naercio Aquino
Data de Publicação: 2006
Outros Autores: Fernandes,Reynaldo, Picchetti,Paulo
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Economia (Online)
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71402006000400005
Resumo: 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 cross-sections of a large Brazilian annual household survey. Counterfactual results indicate that the rise in the schooling level of the Brazilian labor force failed to bring inequality down because the changes in education composition reinforced inequality. Simulations suggest that the education composition of the workforce will contribute to a substantial downward trend in overall inequality in the near future.
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title Rising human capital but constant inequality: the education composition effect in Brazil
spellingShingle Rising human capital but constant inequality: the education composition effect in Brazil
Menezes-Filho,Naercio Aquino
Economic
Development
Wage Inequality
Education
title_short Rising human capital but constant inequality: the education composition effect in Brazil
title_full Rising human capital but constant inequality: the education composition effect in Brazil
title_fullStr Rising human capital but constant inequality: the education composition effect in Brazil
title_full_unstemmed Rising human capital but constant inequality: the education composition effect in Brazil
title_sort Rising human capital but constant inequality: the education composition effect in Brazil
author Menezes-Filho,Naercio Aquino
author_facet Menezes-Filho,Naercio Aquino
Fernandes,Reynaldo
Picchetti,Paulo
author_role author
author2 Fernandes,Reynaldo
Picchetti,Paulo
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Menezes-Filho,Naercio Aquino
Fernandes,Reynaldo
Picchetti,Paulo
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Economic
Development
Wage Inequality
Education
topic Economic
Development
Wage Inequality
Education
description 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 cross-sections of a large Brazilian annual household survey. Counterfactual results indicate that the rise in the schooling level of the Brazilian labor force failed to bring inequality down because the changes in education composition reinforced inequality. Simulations suggest that the education composition of the workforce will contribute to a substantial downward trend in overall inequality in the near future.
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