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Trade policy and wage inequality in Chile since the 1990s
(ECLAC, 2013-04)
Using the results of seven nationally and regionally representative household surveys, this study analyzes the impact of trade liberalization on wage inequality through a channel in which applied tariffs, owing to the ...
Motherhood wage penalties and labour market segmentation: Evidence from Argentina
(2013-12)
This article explores the connection between labour market segregation and
motherhood wage penalties in Argentina across the formal and informal sectors. It
uses ordinary least square and quantile regression estimation ...
Wage rigidity in Chile
(2006-12)
One issue in the debate about the workings of the labour market is its degree of flexibility. In the case of Chile, the Asian crisis of late 1997 led to a large increase in the unemployment rate, while the hourly wage index ...
The impact of the minimum wage on income and employment in Mexico
(2017-08)
This article analyses the effects of a rise in the minimum wage on wages and employment in Mexico. The source of variation is the equalization in late 2012 of the minimum wage in two areas of the country. Using the National ...
New trends in wage policies
(1995-12)
Up to a few years ago, wages policy was a central instrument of macroeconomic policy in Latin America, and there was a great deal of State intervention in it. Now, in the early part of the 1990s, however, the countries of ...
Wage share and economic growth in Latin America, 1950-2011
(2014-08)
This article builds series of wage shares in gross domestic product (GDP) for 15 Latin American economies individually and as a group for the period 1950-2010. Using different methodologies, it is established that wage ...