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

Autores
Acosta, Pablo; Galiani, Sebastián; Cruces, Guillermo Antonio; Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Año de publicación
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 semiskilled 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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Returns to skills
Latin America
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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
Acosta, Pablo
Ciencias Económicas
Returns to skills
Latin America
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 Acosta, Pablo
Galiani, Sebastián
Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
author Acosta, Pablo
author_facet Acosta, Pablo
Galiani, Sebastián
Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
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Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
Returns to skills
Latin America
topic Ciencias Económicas
Returns to skills
Latin America
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 semiskilled 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.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales
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