Chapter 5 Educational Wage Premia and the Distribution of Earnings: An International Perspective This chapter analyzes the international evidence on the relationship between educational wage premia and the distribution of personal labor earnings. The aim is to review what is known about the contribution of differences in relative wages across schooling levels to the degree of variability between countries and over time in the pecuniary returns to work. Definition and measurement problems are of paramount importance in analyses of this kind and so a large part of the chapter is devoted to some of these issues.