Artículo
Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America: Evidence from a supply-demand framework
Fecha de publicación:
11/2017
Editorial:
National Bureau of Economic Research
Revista:
NBER Working Papers
ISSN:
0898-2937
Idioma:
Inglés
Tipo de recurso:
Artículo publicado
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Resumen
This paper documents the evolution of wage differentials and the supply of workers by educational level for sixteen Latin American countries over the period 1991-2013. We find a pattern of rather constant rise in the relative supply of skilled and semi-skilled workers over the period. Whereas the returns to secondary education fell over time, in contrast, the returns to tertiary education display a remarkable changing pattern common to almost all economies: significant increase in the 1990s, strong fall in the 2000s and a deceleration of that fall in the 2010s. We conclude that supply-side factors seem to have limited explanatory power relative to demand-side factors in accounting for changes in the wage gap between workers with tertiary education and the rest.
Palabras clave:
Wage differentials
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Education level
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Citación
Galiani, Sebastian; Cruces, Guillermo Antonio; Acosta, Juan Pablo; Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos; Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America: Evidence from a supply-demand framework; National Bureau of Economic Research; NBER Working Papers; 24015; 11-2017; 1-23
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