Type | Working Paper |
Title | Educational upgrading and wage inequality in Colombia: A quantile regression approach |
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Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2012 |
URL | http://www.alde.es/encuentros/anteriores/xveea/trabajos/a/pdf/168.pdf |
Abstract | In this paper I study the sources of the fall in the overall male wage inequality in Colombia between 2001 and 2010 and test whether the increase in the supply of more educated workers was offset by increased demand. Using Quantile Regressions I conclude that over the sample period schooling had a positive impact upon within-levels wage inequality and that the returns to most of the workers´ characteristics fall because of a strong supply effect in the labor market. The results from the decomposition exercise suggest that the changes in observable prices account for the 42% of the total decrease in inequality while the changes in observable characteristics explain about 33%. |
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