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

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Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos; Galiani, Sebastián; Cruces, Guillermo Antonio; Acosta, Pablo
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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.
This paper is an updated and modified version of the working paper “Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America: Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework, 1990–2010”, World Bank Policy Research Paper 5921, 2011.
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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
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Ciencias Económicas
Educational level
Latin American
Supply-side factors
Demand-side factors
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 Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Galiani, Sebastián
Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
Acosta, Pablo
author Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
author_facet Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Galiani, Sebastián
Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
Acosta, Pablo
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author2 Galiani, Sebastián
Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
Acosta, Pablo
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author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
Educational level
Latin American
Supply-side factors
Demand-side factors
topic Ciencias Económicas
Educational level
Latin American
Supply-side factors
Demand-side factors
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.
This paper is an updated and modified version of the working paper “Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America: Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework, 1990–2010”, World Bank Policy Research Paper 5921, 2011.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales
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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