Evidence that standard demographic characteristics and human capital variables explain at most one-third of wage variance in Mincerian earnings equations opens to the possibility that the earnings distribution resulting from the labour market does not simply mirror differences in skill endowments. After a descriptive analysis of the evolution of
The increasing trend of earnings inequality observed in many countries is usually ascribed to a higher premium to skills, commonly proxied by education. Focusing on Italy, a country characterized by a steep rise in earnings inequality since the ‘90 s, we aim at verifying whether this trend is attributable to education. Making use of administrative data about private employees, we carry out Theil decompositions and estimate wage equations to investigate how much of this trend is linked with education and other observable worker's and firm's characteristics.
The literature on renewable energy sources (RES) does not provide a shared methodology to measure the
sectorial intensity of production linked to RES. Furthermore, empirical evidence on the relationship between
RES sectorial intensity and workers’ earnings is scant. The aim of this paper is to fill in these literature gaps
providing, on the one hand, an original microdata-based methodology to measure the RES sectorial intensity,
and, on the other hand, estimating, through panel data techniques, the relationship between RES sectorial
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