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Wage Inequality between and within Education Levels in Transition Countries

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Inequalities During and After Transition in Central and Eastern Europe

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Earnings inequality between education and skill cohorts in Europe has traditionally been one of the main focuses of theoretical and applied research. The skill-biased technical change (SBTC) theory in particular traces the origin of the skill premia for highly educated workers in a race between education and technology — whose winner is a technology that complements higher education and skills (Goldin and Katz, 2008). But relatively little effort has been made to analysing the size of within-group disparities and their drivers. However, especially under certain structural and institutional conditions which may favour income polarisation and the persistence of low-pay traps, this particular dimension of inequality may be relevant.

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Perugini, C., Pompei, F. (2015). Wage Inequality between and within Education Levels in Transition Countries. In: Perugini, C., Pompei, F. (eds) Inequalities During and After Transition in Central and Eastern Europe. Studies in Economic Transition. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137460981_8

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