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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okr-10986-37332021-04-23T14:02:12Z Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Five Million Latin American Workers Brambilla, Irene Carneiro, Rafael Dix Lederman, Daniel Porto, Guido 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 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 linking the skill premium to the emerging literature on the structure of trade and development. Using data on employment and wages for over five million workers in sixteen Latin American economies, the authors estimate national and industry-specific skill premiums and study some of their determinants. The evidence suggests that both country and industry characteristics are important in explaining skill premiums. The analysis also suggests that the incidence of exports within industries, the average income per capita within countries, and the relative abundance of skilled workers are related to the underlying industry and country characteristics that explain skill premiums. In particular, higher sectoral exports are positively linked with the skill premium at the industry level, a result that supports recent trade models linking exports with wages and the demand for skills. 2012-03-19T18:38:50Z 2012-03-19T18:38:50Z 2010-03-01 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20100323114042 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3733 English Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5246 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Latin America & Caribbean Latin America & Caribbean |
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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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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 Brambilla, Irene Carneiro, Rafael Dix Lederman, Daniel Porto, Guido Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Five Million Latin American Workers |
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Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5246 |
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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 linking the skill premium to
the emerging literature on the structure of trade and
development. Using data on employment and wages for over
five million workers in sixteen Latin American economies,
the authors estimate national and industry-specific skill
premiums and study some of their determinants. The evidence
suggests that both country and industry characteristics are
important in explaining skill premiums. The analysis also
suggests that the incidence of exports within industries,
the average income per capita within countries, and the
relative abundance of skilled workers are related to the
underlying industry and country characteristics that explain
skill premiums. In particular, higher sectoral exports are
positively linked with the skill premium at the industry
level, a result that supports recent trade models linking
exports with wages and the demand for skills. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Brambilla, Irene Carneiro, Rafael Dix Lederman, Daniel Porto, Guido |
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Brambilla, Irene Carneiro, Rafael Dix Lederman, Daniel Porto, Guido |
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Brambilla, Irene |
| title |
Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Five Million Latin American Workers |
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Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Five Million Latin American Workers |
| title_full |
Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Five Million Latin American Workers |
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Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Five Million Latin American Workers |
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Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Five Million Latin American Workers |
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skills, exports, and the wages of five million latin american workers |
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2012 |
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