@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp120,
            	author={Pereira, Pedro T. and Martins, Pedro S.},
            	title={Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries},
            	year={2000},
	month={Feb},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={120},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp120},
	abstract={We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality -the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that education is a risky investment. These results suggest a positive interaction between schooling and ability with respect to earnings.},
	keywords={education systems;ability;quantile regressions;labour-market institutions;Returns to education;earnings inequality},
            }