Inequality in education accounts for a large share of the inequality in earnings in Mexico. But the increase in earnings inequality does not appear to reflect a worsening in the distribution of education. The cause instead appears to be skill-biased technological change facilitated by increased...

The results of this paper appear to indicate that CONALEP is a highy costeffective program. CONALEP has had spillover effects on the rest of the technical education system in Mexico by stimulating other educational institutions to be more efficient

Even accounting for the large variance induced by different estimation techniques, one probably cannot say much about the flexibility of different labor markets based on comparisons of the estimated elasticity of demand. Colombia, for example, which has severe restrictions on firing workers, has...