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- Changing returns to education in Portugal during the 1980s and early 1990s: OLS and quantile regression estimatorsPublication . Hartog, Joop; Pereira, Pedro T.; Vieira, José A. C.This paper examines the evolution of the returns to education in Portugal over the 1980s and early 1990s. The main ®ndings indicate that the returns to education have increased, particularly after joining the European Union in 1986. Since this occurred along with an increase in the level of education within the labour force, the process is most likely demand driven. The results also indicate that modelling on average (i.e. OLS) misses important features of the wage structure. Quantile regression (QR) analysis reveals that the eŒect of education is not constant across the conditional wage distribution. They are higher for those at higher quantiles in the conditional wage distribution. Wage inequality expanded in Portugal over the 1980s and the returns to education had an important role in this process.
- Inter-industry wage dispersion in PortugalPublication . Hartog, Joop; Pereira, Pedro T.; Vieira, José A. C.The emerging notion that corporatism/centralisation reduces inter-industry wage disper sion is the main leading force behind this paper. We use data from a long series of comparable datasets to analyse the evolution of the size of inter-industry wage dispersion in Portugal. We compare the results with the ones obtained in other countries to find that the country has a high inter-industry wage inequality when compared with the European standard. Nevertheless, the dispersion decreased during the second half of the 1980s along with the establishment of a neo-corporatist setting, supporting the expected reduction.