Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Five Million Latin American Workers

Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Five Million Latin American Workers

The returns to schooling or the skill premium is a key parameter in various literatures, including globalization and inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus linkin...

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Main Authors: Brambilla, Irene, Carneiro, Rafael Dix, Lederman, Daniel, Porto, Guido
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
AVERAGE INCOME
BENEFITS OF EDUCATION
BRAIN DRAIN
CERTIFICATION
COLLEGE GRADUATES
COMPETITIVE LABOR MARKETS
CONSTRUCTION
COUNTRY CHARACTERISTICS
COUNTRY DUMMIES
COUNTRY EFFECTS
CROSS-COUNTRY DIFFERENCES
CROSS-INDUSTRY REGRESSIONS
DECREASING FUNCTION
DEMAND FUNCTIONS
DEPENDENT VARIABLE
DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
DEVELOPED ECONOMIES
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS
ECONOMETRIC ISSUES
ECONOMETRIC PROBLEMS
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC REVIEW
ECONOMIC STUDIES
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
EDUCATIONAL LEVELS
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
EMPLOYEE
EMPLOYMENT
EQUILIBRIUM WAGES
EXPLANATORY POWER
EXPLANATORY VARIABLES
EXPORT-PROCESSING ZONES
FACTOR ENDOWMENTS
FINANCIAL CRISIS
FIRM PERFORMANCE
GRADUATE DEGREES
GRADUATE EDUCATION
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
INCOME
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
INCOME INEQUALITY
INCREASING FUNCTION
INDUSTRY CHARACTERISTICS
INDUSTRY WAGE
INSURANCE
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
JOBS
LABOR ECONOMICS
LABOR FORCE
LABOR MARKET
LABOR MARKET SEGMENTATION
LABOR MARKETS
LABOR SUPPLY
LEARNING
LITERATURE
MEASUREMENT ERRORS
NATIONAL POLICIES
0 HYPOTHESIS
PAPERS
PIPELINES
POLICY DISCUSSIONS
POLICY IMPLICATIONS
POLICY OPTIONS
POLICY RESEARCH
POLITICAL ECONOMY
POOR COUNTRIES
PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION
PRODUCTIVE FIRMS
PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENTS
PROFIT SHARING
REGIONAL DUMMIES
REGRESSION RESULTS
RESEARCHERS
SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES
SKILL GROUPS
SKILL LEVEL
SKILL LEVELS
SKILL PREMIUM
SKILL PREMIUMS
SKILLED INDIVIDUALS
SKILLED LABOR
SKILLED LABOR FORCE
SKILLED WAGES
SKILLED WORKERS
TERTIARY EDUCATION
TOTAL LABOR FORCE
TOTAL WAGES
TRADE LIBERALIZATION
TRADE REFORMS
UNEMPLOYED
UNEMPLOYED WORKERS
UNEMPLOYMENT
UNION MEMBERSHIP
UNION WAGE PREMIUM
UNSKILLED LABOR
UNSKILLED WORKER
UNSKILLED WORKERS
WAGE DIFFERENTIAL
WAGE DIFFERENTIALS
WAGE EQUALIZATION
WAGE GAP
WAGE INEQUALITY
WAGE PREMIUM
WAGE PREMIUMS
WORKER
WORKERS
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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3733

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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3733

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