Real wages and skill premiums during economic development in Latin America

This paper discusses and documents a new dataset of real wages for unskilled, semi-skilled, and relatively skilled labour in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela (LA-6) over the period 1900-2011. Three interrelated aspects are examined: the wage growth record associated with per...

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Main Author: Junquera, P
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2017