Income inequality, skills and trade : evidence from Colombia during the 80s and 90s
This paper investigates the evolution of labor income inequality in Colombia in the period 1978-98. Main findings are the secular fall of the returns to intermediate skill and the increases of wages for highly educated people and for women. Such changes are associated with shifts of the skill compos...
- Autores:
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Santa María Salamanca, Mauricio
- Tipo de recurso:
- Work document
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2004
- Institución:
- Universidad de los Andes
- Repositorio:
- Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/8691
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/1992/8691
- Palabra clave:
- Skills
Wage Inequality
Semiparametric
Salarios - Colombia - 1980-1999
Trabajo calificado - Colombia - 1980-1999
J23, J31, C14
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
| Summary: | This paper investigates the evolution of labor income inequality in Colombia in the period 1978-98. Main findings are the secular fall of the returns to intermediate skill and the increases of wages for highly educated people and for women. Such changes are associated with shifts of the skill composition of the labor force and with skill biased technical change, rather than with increased openness of the economy. The paper uses a skill supply and demand framework to arrive to these conclusions, and also a non-parametric decomposition exercise is carried out. |
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