Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America : Evidence from a supply-demand framework, 1990-2010
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos et al · SEDICI UNLP · 2011
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It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the educational upgrading of its labor force. Between 1990 and 2010, the proportion of the labor force in the region with at least secondary education increased from 40 to 60 percent. Concurrently, returns to secondary education completion fell throughout the past two decades, while the 2000s saw a reversal in the increase in the returns to tertiary education experienced in the 1990s. This paper studies the evolution of wage differentials and the trends in the supply of workers by educational level for 16 Latin American countries between 1990 and 2000. The analysis estimates the relative contribution of supply and demand factors behind recent trends in skill premia for tertiary and secondary educated workers. Supplyside factors seem to have limited explanatory power relative to demandside factors, and are only relevant to explain part of the fall in wage premia for highschool graduates. Although there is significant heterogeneity in individual country experiences, on average the trend reversal in labor demand in the 2000s can be partially attributed to the recent boom in commodity prices that could favor the unskilled (nontertiary educated) workforce, although employment patterns by sector suggest that other withinsector forces are also at play, such as technological diffusion or skill mismatches that may reduce the labor productivity of highlyeducated workers.
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Gasparini, L. C. E. A. (2011). Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America: Evidence from a supply-demand framework, 1990-2010. http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/3709
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Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos et al. "Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America: Evidence from a supply-demand framework, 1990-2010." 2011. http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/3709.
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Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos et al. 2011. "Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America: Evidence from a supply-demand framework, 1990-2010.". http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/3709.
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Gasparini, L. C. E. A. 2011, Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America: Evidence from a supply-demand framework, 1990-2010, SEDICI UNLP, available at: http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/3709 [Accessed 21 Jun. 2026].
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- Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America : Evidence from a supply-demand framework, 1990-2010
- Autor / colaboradores
- Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos et al
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- SEDICI UNLP
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- 2011
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