Publication: Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Five Million Latin American Workers
dc.contributor.author | Brambilla, Irene | |
dc.contributor.author | Carneiro, Rafael Dix | |
dc.contributor.author | Lederman, Daniel | |
dc.contributor.author | Porto, Guido | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-03-19T18:38:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-03-19T18:38:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-03-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en |
dc.identifier | 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 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1596/1813-9450-5246 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10986/3733 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5246 | |
dc.rights | CC BY 3.0 IGO | |
dc.rights.holder | World Bank | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ | |
dc.subject | AVERAGE INCOME | |
dc.subject | BENEFITS OF EDUCATION | |
dc.subject | BRAIN DRAIN | |
dc.subject | CERTIFICATION | |
dc.subject | COLLEGE GRADUATES | |
dc.subject | COMPETITIVE LABOR MARKETS | |
dc.subject | CONSTRUCTION | |
dc.subject | COUNTRY CHARACTERISTICS | |
dc.subject | COUNTRY DUMMIES | |
dc.subject | COUNTRY EFFECTS | |
dc.subject | CROSS-COUNTRY DIFFERENCES | |
dc.subject | CROSS-INDUSTRY REGRESSIONS | |
dc.subject | DECREASING FUNCTION | |
dc.subject | DEMAND FUNCTIONS | |
dc.subject | DEPENDENT VARIABLE | |
dc.subject | DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPED ECONOMIES | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPING COUNTRIES | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS | |
dc.subject | DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS | |
dc.subject | ECONOMETRIC ISSUES | |
dc.subject | ECONOMETRIC PROBLEMS | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC ACTIVITY | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC GROWTH | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC REVIEW | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC STUDIES | |
dc.subject | EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | |
dc.subject | EDUCATIONAL LEVELS | |
dc.subject | EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS | |
dc.subject | EMPLOYEE | |
dc.subject | EMPLOYMENT | |
dc.subject | EQUILIBRIUM WAGES | |
dc.subject | EXPLANATORY POWER | |
dc.subject | EXPLANATORY VARIABLES | |
dc.subject | EXPORT-PROCESSING ZONES | |
dc.subject | FACTOR ENDOWMENTS | |
dc.subject | FINANCIAL CRISIS | |
dc.subject | FIRM PERFORMANCE | |
dc.subject | GRADUATE DEGREES | |
dc.subject | GRADUATE EDUCATION | |
dc.subject | HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES | |
dc.subject | HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY | |
dc.subject | HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS | |
dc.subject | INCOME | |
dc.subject | INCOME DISTRIBUTION | |
dc.subject | INCOME INEQUALITY | |
dc.subject | INCREASING FUNCTION | |
dc.subject | INDUSTRY CHARACTERISTICS | |
dc.subject | INDUSTRY WAGE | |
dc.subject | INSURANCE | |
dc.subject | INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION | |
dc.subject | INTERNATIONAL TRADE | |
dc.subject | JOBS | |
dc.subject | LABOR ECONOMICS | |
dc.subject | LABOR FORCE | |
dc.subject | LABOR MARKET | |
dc.subject | LABOR MARKET SEGMENTATION | |
dc.subject | LABOR MARKETS | |
dc.subject | LABOR SUPPLY | |
dc.subject | LEARNING | |
dc.subject | LITERATURE | |
dc.subject | MEASUREMENT ERRORS | |
dc.subject | NATIONAL POLICIES | |
dc.subject | 0 HYPOTHESIS | |
dc.subject | PAPERS | |
dc.subject | PIPELINES | |
dc.subject | POLICY DISCUSSIONS | |
dc.subject | POLICY IMPLICATIONS | |
dc.subject | POLICY OPTIONS | |
dc.subject | POLICY RESEARCH | |
dc.subject | POLITICAL ECONOMY | |
dc.subject | POOR COUNTRIES | |
dc.subject | PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION | |
dc.subject | PRODUCTIVE FIRMS | |
dc.subject | PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENTS | |
dc.subject | PROFIT SHARING | |
dc.subject | REGIONAL DUMMIES | |
dc.subject | REGRESSION RESULTS | |
dc.subject | RESEARCHERS | |
dc.subject | SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES | |
dc.subject | SKILL GROUPS | |
dc.subject | SKILL LEVEL | |
dc.subject | SKILL LEVELS | |
dc.subject | SKILL PREMIUM | |
dc.subject | SKILL PREMIUMS | |
dc.subject | SKILLED INDIVIDUALS | |
dc.subject | SKILLED LABOR | |
dc.subject | SKILLED LABOR FORCE | |
dc.subject | SKILLED WAGES | |
dc.subject | SKILLED WORKERS | |
dc.subject | TERTIARY EDUCATION | |
dc.subject | TOTAL LABOR FORCE | |
dc.subject | TOTAL WAGES | |
dc.subject | TRADE LIBERALIZATION | |
dc.subject | TRADE REFORMS | |
dc.subject | UNEMPLOYED | |
dc.subject | UNEMPLOYED WORKERS | |
dc.subject | UNEMPLOYMENT | |
dc.subject | UNION MEMBERSHIP | |
dc.subject | UNION WAGE PREMIUM | |
dc.subject | UNSKILLED LABOR | |
dc.subject | UNSKILLED WORKER | |
dc.subject | UNSKILLED WORKERS | |
dc.subject | WAGE DIFFERENTIAL | |
dc.subject | WAGE DIFFERENTIALS | |
dc.subject | WAGE EQUALIZATION | |
dc.subject | WAGE GAP | |
dc.subject | WAGE INEQUALITY | |
dc.subject | WAGE PREMIUM | |
dc.subject | WAGE PREMIUMS | |
dc.subject | WORKER | |
dc.subject | WORKERS | |
dc.title | Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Five Million Latin American Workers | en |
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okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea | Jobs | |
okr.crossref.title | Skills, Exports, And The Wages Of Five Million Latin American Workers | |
okr.date.doiregistration | 2025-04-10T11:53:41.217741Z | |
okr.doctype | Publications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper | |
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okr.globalpractice | Education | |
okr.globalpractice | Social Protection and Labor | |
okr.globalpractice | Poverty | |
okr.globalpractice | Water | |
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okr.identifier.doi | 10.1596/1813-9450-5246 | |
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum | 000158349_20100323114042 | |
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum | 11985933 | |
okr.identifier.report | WPS5246 | |
okr.language.supported | en | |
okr.pdfurl | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2010/03/23/000158349_20100323114042/Rendered/PDF/WPS5246.pdf | en |
okr.region.administrative | Latin America & Caribbean | |
okr.region.administrative | Latin America & Caribbean | |
okr.sector | Industry and trade :: General industry and trade sector | |
okr.theme | Trade and integration :: Other trade and integration | |
okr.topic | Social Protections and Labor::Labor Policies | |
okr.topic | Poverty Reduction::Inequality | |
okr.topic | Water Resources::Water and Industry | |
okr.topic | Tertiary Education | |
okr.topic | Education | |
okr.unit | Development Research Group (DECRG) | |
okr.volume | 1 of 1 | |
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