Wage inequality in the developing world: Evidence from Latin America

We study the dynamics of wage inequality in Latin America in the past two decades. We find a consistent trend reversal in wage inequality in the region since the early 2000s: wage inequality fell across all countries in a way not predicted by the trends each country had experienced in the 1990s. The...

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Published in:Review of development economics 2022-11, Vol.26 (4), p.1944-1970
Main Authors: Rodríguez‐Castelán, Carlos, López‐Calva, Luis Felipe, Lustig, Nora, Valderrama, Daniel
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education wage premium
experience wage premium
Inequality
Latin America
Residence
Reversal
Trends
Wage differential
wage inequality
Wage structure
Workers
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Wage differential
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Wage structure
Workers
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