• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Skill premium, labor supply and changes in the structure of wages in Latin America
  • Contributor: Fernández, Manuel [Author]; Messina, Julián [Author]
  • imprint: Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), 2017
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.18235/0000654
  • Keywords: J31 ; Supply-Demand framework ; Earnings inequality ; Human capital ; J20 ; Unconditional quantile regressions
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  • Description: Earnings inequality declined rapidly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile during the 2000s. A reduction in the experience premium is a fundamental driver of declines in upper-tail (90/50) inequality, while a decline in the education premium is the primary determinant of the evolution of lower-tail (50/10) inequality. Relative labor supply is important for explaining changes in the skill premiums. Relative demand trends favored high-skilled workers during the 1990s, shifting in favor of low-skilled workers during the 2000s. Changes in the minimum wage, and more importantly, commodity-led terms of trade improvements are key factors behind these relative skill demand trends.
  • Access State: Open Access