Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Weber, Guglielmo
• 署名单位: University of Padua; University of Bologna; University of Padua
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02244.x
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 516-539
• 关键词: returns; ability; identification; TECHNOLOGY; quantiles

摘要

Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We find that compulsory school reforms significantly affect educational attainment, especially among individuals belonging to the lowest quantiles of the distribution of ability. There is also evidence that additional education reduces conditional wage inequality, and that education and ability are substitutes in the earnings function.