Estructura productiva y desigualdad salarial: evidencia para América Latina

Matías Ciaschi, Luciana Galeano and Leonardo Gasparini
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Luciana Galeano: Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (Cedlas)

El Trimestre Económico, 2021, vol. 88 (1), issue 349, 77-106

Abstract: This paper studies the evolution of skill premia and its relationship with the productive structure in 16 countries in Latin America, using microdata from household surveys and information from national accounts for the 1991-2015 period. The evidence suggests that the change in the productive structure is significantly correlated to the dynamics of wage inequality. In particular, when the share in total value added of sectors that are more intensive in high-skilled labor grows, the skill premia increases significantly.

Keywords: Inequality; wage gap; economic structure; Latin America. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 I26 J21 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.20430/ete.v88i349.1078

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