Inter-industry Wage Premia in Portugal: Evidence from EU-SILC data

Biagetti, Marco and Scicchitano, Sergio (2009): Inter-industry Wage Premia in Portugal: Evidence from EU-SILC data.

Abstract

In this paper we investigate whether inequality in the inter-industry wage premia may be explained by unobserved differences in workers’ educational skills. We use the 2007 EU-SILC data set for Portugal, a nation which can be considered a case-study, due to its high inter-industry wage dispersion. Applying both OLS and quantile regression techniques, our results suggest that this unobserved heterogeneity is not a relevant matter in the wage premia determination. We thus corroborate the previous empirical contribution to Economic Letters performed by Martins (2004).

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Returns to education; inter-industry wage inequality; Quantile regression; Portugal
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C1 - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General > C14 - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs > J31 - Wage Level and Structure ; Wage Differentials; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I21 - Analysis of Education

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