Education, particularly higher education, generates both social benefits as private benefits, of which the individual appropriates. This paper attempts to determine the monetary benefits received by individuals who have completed higher education. For this porpous, it is consider the income of...

This paper analyses wage differentials between public and private workers in Uruguay during the nineties. Previous empirical evidence showed the existence of a wage premium for public sector workers when comparing all public vs. private workers. Consideration of skilled and unskilled workers...

Spanish Abstract: Varias investigaciones demuestran la existencia de diferencias salariales entre grupos laborales: sexo, etnia, público-privado, etc. Sin embargo, estos documentos no han tratado la incidencia de las mismas en la distribución del ingreso total o satisfacción de necesidades...

The purpose of this document is to analyze the relation between unemployment and wages in Mexico during the 1993-2002 period, using the methodology of wage curve. The results show a negative relation between the rate of local unemployment and the wages, although its elasticity is inferior to the...