Chor, Davin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This paper constructs a data set on purchasing-power-parity (PPP) adjusted skilled and unskilled wages in 139 countries … Oostendorp (2000) Occupational Wages Around the World (OWW) le. It nds strong evidence for the existence of well … real wages, implying that the claim of "Divergence, Big Time" (Pritchett 1997) has to be qualied when factor markets are …