dc.contributor.author | Fernandes, Ana P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Winters, L. Alan | |
dc.contributor.author | Ferreira, Priscila | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-06-04T13:48:51Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-08-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper studies the effect of firm entry deregulation on the returns to skill and education. We exploit a comprehensive episode of entry deregulation, unique in the industrialized world, as a quasi-natural experiment. Using matched employer–employee data for the universe of workers and firms in Portugal, we show that increased product market competition, which resulted from deregulation, increased the returns to a university degree and the returns to skill. We verify that our results are not driven by changes in employment composition, and are unlikely to be driven by skill-biased technical change, or by workers who change skill levels after the deregulation. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Volume 70, pp. 210-230 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2014.04.004 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | PEstOE/EGE/UI3181/2011 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/17408 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001429211400066X | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://www.journals.elsevier.com/european-economic-review/ | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Publisher's embargo - 24 months from publication | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2014, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_GB |
dc.subject | entry | en_GB |
dc.subject | deregulation | en_GB |
dc.subject | product market competition | en_GB |
dc.subject | wage structure | en_GB |
dc.subject | returns to education | en_GB |
dc.title | Firm entry deregulation, competition and returns to education and skill | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 1873-572X | |
dc.description | Article | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in European Economic Review. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in European Economic Review (2014), Vol 70, pp. 210-230 doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2014.04.004 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | European Economic Review | en_GB |