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The UK wage premium puzzle: How did a large increase in university graduates leave the education premium unchanged?
Blundell, Richard; Green, David A.; Jin, Wenchao - 2016
Since the early-1990s the UK experienced an unprecedented increase in university graduates. The proportion of people with a university degree by age 30 more than doubled from 16% for born in 1965-69 to 33% for those born ten years later. At the same time the age profile of the graduate premium...
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Skill upgrading, wage gap and international trade: Firm-level evidence for Italian manufacturing firms
Iodice, Irene; Tomasi, Chiara - 2015
This paper aims at investigating the evolution of the employment and wage structure of Italian manufacturing firms in the early 2000s. The work analyzes whether skills and wage movements have been taken place between or within sectors, and within sector, between or within firms. We show that...
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Inequality in Education: Evidence for Latin America
Cruces, Guillermo; Domench, Carolina García; … - 2012
This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for all Latin American countries over the decades of 1990 and 2000. The analysis covers a wide range of issues on differences in educational outcomes and opportunities across the population, including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429399
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Beyond traditional wage premium: An analysis of wage greenium in Latin America
Cerimelo, Manuela; de la Vega, Pablo; Porto, Natalia; … - 2024
countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay), which account for 81% of the region …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518129
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Inequality in education: Evidence for Latin America
Cruces, Guillermo; García Domench, Carolina; … - 2011
This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American countries over the decades of 1990 and 2000. The analysis covers a wide range of issues on the differences in educational outcomes and opportunities across the population, including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319832
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Trade openness and income: A tale of two regions
Camarero, Mariam; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2013
In this article we present evidence of the long-run effect of trade openness on income per worker for two regions that have followed different liberalization strategies, namely Asia and Latin America. A model that re-examines these questions is estimated for two panels of Asian and Latin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332686
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Inequality in Latin America: The role of the nature of trade and partners
García Muñoz, Teresa María; Milgram Baleix, Juliette; … - 2019
This paper investigates the relationship between trade openness and income inequality in 11 Latin American countries over the period 1989-2015. We use a panel dynamic approach to take into account the high persistence of income inequality. The analysis classifies trade flows, exports and imports...
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Inequality in Latin America: The role of the nature of trade and partners
García Muñoz, Teresa María; Milgram Baleix, Juliette; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 14 (2020) 2020-25, pp. 1-35
This paper investigates the relationship between trade openness and income inequality in 11 Latin American countries over the period 1989-2015. The authors use a panel dynamic approach to take into account the high persistence of income inequality. The analysis classifies trade flows, exports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252182
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The effect of temporary contracts on human capital accumulation in Chile
Carpio, Susana; Giuliodori, David; Rucci, Graciana; … - 2011
permanent and temporary workers in Chile. We use data from the Social Protection Survey, EPS, which allow us to construct a … Chile reduces the probability of receiving employer-paid training. We also find that this deficit is not compensated by … an open-ended contract is low. Second, the productivity growth in Chile after 1997 is practically zero and human capital …
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Household Saving and Labor Informality: The Case of Chile
Schclarek, Alfredo; Caggia, Mauricio - 2015
financial characterization of informal workers in Chile. The paper uses the Financial Household Survey conducted by the Central … Bank of Chile in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, which covers between 1,740 and 2,533 urban households, performing both OLS and … workers, but may also have positive consequences on the aggregate saving rate. In addition, for Chile, it is evident that …
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