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More standard methodological instruments are also used as a reference: cardinal measures of inequality and the Lorenz stochastic dominance approach.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 The median and average earnings of employees increased and there was also a rise in earnings inequality. Relative to 1985, in 1991 there were more employees with very low earnings but also more 1991 employees with high earnings and there were also more employees at the bottom and top ends of the earnings distribution. The analysis of the relative earnings distribution by level of education reveals substantial differences for the top end of the distributions with the proportion of 1991 employees receiving the highest earnings higher than for the original 1985 cohort. A regional disaggregation confirms that the overall employees\u2019 earnings and education distributions characteristics are determined by the behaviour of coastal regions, while in the non-coastal regions a lower level of inequality is associated with lower levels of median and average earnings and a different polarization pattern.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 The paper shows that inequality is not a recent phenomenon in the Portuguese economy and thus might be one of the sources of the growth slowdown Portugal is experiencing since the turn of the century and might continue to hamper growth in the future deserving deeper investigation.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/ijse-04-2013-0081","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,7,11]],"date-time":"2014-07-11T01:44:43Z","timestamp":1405043083000},"page":"586-608","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Earnings and education in Portugal, 1985-1991"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"41","author":[{"given":"Jo\u00e3o","family":"Sousa Andrade","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Adelaide","family":"Duarte","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Marta","family":"C.N. 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