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Rates of Return to Education in Brazil: Do Labor Market Conditions Matter?
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Griffin, Peter; Edwards, Alejandra Cox – Economics of Education Review, 1993
Presents new estimates of the rates of return to Brazilian education in 1989. Modifies customary Mincerian methodology to capture the wage effects of changes in the labor force's educational structure. Results suggest that workers with less than university education compete with each other (are substitutes), whereas more highly educated workers…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
New Estimates of the Returns to Schooling in Brazil.
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Tannen, Michael B. – Economics of Education Review, 1991
Estimates the returns to schooling in Brazil in 1980, by fitting earnings functions to census microdata. The average private rate of return has fallen by about one-third from 1970 but still remains a respectable 12 to 13 percent. When schooling levels are disaggregated, the lowest private rates emerge for primary education, and the highest for…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Education, Earning, and Inequality in Brazil, 1982-1998: Implications for Education Policy.
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Blom, Andreas; Holm-Nielsen, Lauritz; Verner, Dorte – Peabody Journal of Education, 2001
Examined the statistical relationship between education and earnings in Brazil and the benefits of staying one extra year in school. Overall, the economic reward for staying in school for one more year fundamentally changed from 1982-98, and this development fundamentally altered the way education was remunerated in the labor market. Four…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Foreign Countries