Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America: Evidence from a supply-demand framework

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Galiani, Sebastian; Cruces, Guillermo Antonio; Acosta, Juan Pablo; Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
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2017
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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.
Fil: Galiani, Sebastian. University of Maryland; Estados Unidos
Fil: Cruces, Guillermo Antonio. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Departamento de Ciencias Económicas. Centro de Estudios Distributivos Laborales y Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina
Fil: Acosta, Juan Pablo. Banco Mundial; Estados Unidos
Fil: Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Departamento de Ciencias Económicas. Centro de Estudios Distributivos Laborales y Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina
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Education level
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spelling Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America: Evidence from a supply-demand frameworkGaliani, SebastianCruces, Guillermo AntonioAcosta, Juan PabloGasparini, Leonardo CarlosWage differentialsEducation levelhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.2https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5This 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.Fil: Galiani, Sebastian. University of Maryland; Estados UnidosFil: Cruces, Guillermo Antonio. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Departamento de Ciencias Económicas. Centro de Estudios Distributivos Laborales y Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Acosta, Juan Pablo. Banco Mundial; Estados UnidosFil: Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Departamento de Ciencias Económicas. Centro de Estudios Distributivos Laborales y Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; ArgentinaNational Bureau of Economic Research2017-11info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/95082Galiani, 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; 1-230898-2937CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.nber.org/papers/w24015info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3386/w24015info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-10-29T11:20:00Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/95082instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-10-29 11:20:00.814CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America: Evidence from a supply-demand framework
title Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America: Evidence from a supply-demand framework
spellingShingle Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America: Evidence from a supply-demand framework
Galiani, Sebastian
Wage differentials
Education level
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
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Galiani, Sebastian
Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
Acosta, Juan Pablo
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
author Galiani, Sebastian
author_facet Galiani, Sebastian
Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
Acosta, Juan Pablo
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
author_role author
author2 Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
Acosta, Juan Pablo
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Wage differentials
Education level
topic Wage differentials
Education level
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.2
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv 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.
Fil: Galiani, Sebastian. University of Maryland; Estados Unidos
Fil: Cruces, Guillermo Antonio. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Departamento de Ciencias Económicas. Centro de Estudios Distributivos Laborales y Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina
Fil: Acosta, Juan Pablo. Banco Mundial; Estados Unidos
Fil: Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Departamento de Ciencias Económicas. Centro de Estudios Distributivos Laborales y Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina
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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