differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity …-based determinations of wages. Special emphasis is given to the effects of human capital variables, such as education, experience, and … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers …

"The author addresses the labor markets in rural and semi-urban Mexico. The empirical analyses show that non …, low-productivity wage labor activities are important. The quantile wage regression analysis for rural Mexico shows a … rather heterogeneous impact pattern of individual characteristics across the wage distribution on monthly wages. The author …

male workers in Brazil and Mexico. Our analysis takes into account demographic, educational, and economic variations within … each country over time, using Demographic Censuses microdata from Brazil and Mexico. Results suggest that demographic and … countries. Moreover, in Brazil and Mexico, these effects are observed throughout the income distribution, contrary to what is …

Inequality in education accounts for a large share of the inequality in earnings in Mexico. But the increase in …

employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, distinguishing between dependent and independent workers. For each country, we use …-employment carries a premium in Mexico. In contrast, the upper-tier segment is marginal in South Africa, and informal workers, both …