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Territorial Productivity Differences and Dynamics within Latin American Countries

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dc.contributor.authorD'Aoust, Olivia
dc.contributor.authorGaldo, Virgilio
dc.contributor.authorIanchovichina, Elena
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-10T17:23:36Z
dc.date.available2023-07-10T17:23:36Z
dc.date.issued2023-07-10
dc.description.abstractThe paper documents the evolution of territorial disparities in labor and location productivity in 14 countries in Latin America, using millions of observations from harmonized household surveys and censuses. Between the early 2000s and the late 2010s, most countries in the region experienced significant reductions in regional inequality as real labor incomes and location productivity premia converged at the first and second administrative levels. The leveling up reflected both the slowdown in productivity growth in affluent predominantly urban municipalities and the catchup of relatively poor, predominantly rural municipalities. Absolute convergence narrowed the labor income gaps with leading metropolitan areas, including the disparitites exploitable through migration, especially among the bottom 40 percent of households, as cities de-industrialized, yet continued to attract migrants. On the eve of the Covid-19 pandemic, income disparities with leading metropolitan areas remained high in nearly all countries, largely due to differences in educational attainment, but in a few countries, large differences in returns to endowments indicate potentially significant returns to migration to the leading metropolitan areas, especially for residents of relatively poor, remote regions. Rather than a clear rural-urban-metropolitan divide, in most countries the paper documents substantial overlap between the location-premia distributions of different types of second-level administrative areas and small differences between the average urban and rural place productivity premia.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099444106122335756/IDU0460d1fca087eb04a6408994015515f71e111
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-10480
dc.identifier.urihttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/39968
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Papers; 10480
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectLABOR EARNINGS
dc.subjectINCOME CONVERGENCE
dc.subjectTERRITORIAL INEQUALITY
dc.subjectLOCATION EFFECTS
dc.subjectSPATIAL ANALYSIS
dc.subjectURBANIZATION
dc.titleTerritorial Productivity Differences and Dynamics within Latin American Countriesen
dc.typeWorking Paper
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okr.crossref.titleTerritorial Productivity Differences and Dynamics within Latin American Countries
okr.date.disclosure2023-06-12
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-25T02:23:52.337338Z
okr.date.lastmodified2023-06-12T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypePolicy Research Working Paper
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099444106122335756/IDU0460d1fca087eb04a6408994015515f71e111
okr.guid099444106122335756
okr.identifier.docmidIDU-460d1fca-87eb-4a64-8994-15515f71e111
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-10480
okr.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-10480
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum34078434
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum34078434
okr.identifier.reportWPS10480
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099444106122335756/pdf/IDU0460d1fca087eb04a6408994015515f71e111.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeLatin America and Caribbean
okr.region.administrativeLatin America and Caribbean
okr.sectorSub-National Government
okr.unitChief Economist (LCRCE)
okr.volume1
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