Educational Attainment and Earnings Inequality in Eight Nations

Dennis Sullivan () and Timothy Smeeding ()

No 164, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: This paper investigates the relationship between educational attainment and earnings inequality in eight nations using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) database. Although the results should be considered exploratory rather than definitive until verified and qualified by more detailed comparative studies, two basic conclusions can be simply stated. First, among advanced economies there is no obvious relationship between the degree of earnings inequality and the percentage of the labor force attaining higher levels of education. The second conclusion is less agnostic: there is a clear positive correlation between the earnings differentials associated with greater educational attainment and the extent of earnings inequality.

Pages: 33 pages
Date: 1997-07
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Published in International Journal of Education Research 27, no. 6 (1997): 513-525

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