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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Autores principales: Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos, Galiani, Sebastián, Cruces, Guillermo Antonio, Acosta, Pablo
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/124459
https://www.nber.org/papers/w24015
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topic Ciencias Económicas
Educational level
Latin American
Supply-side factors
Demand-side factors
spellingShingle 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
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
Educational level
Latin American
Supply-side factors
Demand-side factors
description 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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Documento de trabajo
author Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Galiani, Sebastián
Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
Acosta, Pablo
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Galiani, Sebastián
Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
Acosta, Pablo
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title Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America : Evidence from a supply-demand framework
title_short Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America : Evidence from a supply-demand framework
title_full Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America : Evidence from a supply-demand framework
title_fullStr Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America : Evidence from a supply-demand framework
title_full_unstemmed Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America : Evidence from a supply-demand framework
title_sort educational upgrading and returns to skills in latin america : evidence from a supply-demand framework
publishDate 2017
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/124459
https://www.nber.org/papers/w24015
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