México: Evolution of earnings inequality and rates of returns to education (1988-2002)
This paper reviews the factors and mechanisms that have been driving inequality in Mexico and finds that educational inequality accounts for by far the largest share of Mexico’s variation in earnings inequality. The contribution of inequality of education to inequality of earnings in Mexico is the second highest in Latin America after Brazil. The increase in earnings inequality, however, does not appear to be the result of a worsening in the distribution of education, although the income profile, which is related to the returns to schooling, has become much steeper.
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2004
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Authors: | López-Acevedo, Gladys |
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Estudios Económicos. - Centro de Estudios Económicos. - Vol. 19.2004, 2, p. 211-284
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Centro de Estudios Económicos |
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