Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America : Evidence from a supply-demand framework
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 re...
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Ciencias Económicas Educational level Latin American Supply-side factors Demand-side factors Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos Galiani, Sebastián Cruces, Guillermo Antonio Acosta, Pablo Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America : Evidence from a supply-demand framework |
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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. |
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Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos Galiani, Sebastián Cruces, Guillermo Antonio Acosta, Pablo |
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Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos Galiani, Sebastián Cruces, Guillermo Antonio Acosta, Pablo |
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Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos |
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Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America : Evidence from a supply-demand framework |
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Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America : Evidence from a supply-demand framework |
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Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America : Evidence from a supply-demand framework |
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Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America : Evidence from a supply-demand framework |
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Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America : Evidence from a supply-demand framework |
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educational upgrading and returns to skills in latin america : evidence from a supply-demand framework |
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