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Forecasting Wage Inequality
(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007-12)
Wage inequality in Chile has remained high for decades and it is currently at the
center of the political agenda. Increasing education of workers is expected to
contribute to reduce wage inequality. Based on historical ...
Do changes in the minimun wage effect younger and older workers differently? evidence for Paraguay using semi-parametric methods
(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2005-06)
Semiparametric methods have been used to assess the impact of policies such
as changes in the minimum wage on the distribution of wage earnings. While
the methods are in the spirit of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition, ...
Minimum wage and education premium in Argentina: 2004-2014
(2016-11)
During the period 2004 to 2014, as Argentina was recovering from one of its most important economic crisis, there was an important reduction of the education wage premiun, Among the reasons for this behavior we find out ...
Decomposing public-private teachers’ wage gap: evidence from Brazil
(Sociedade Brasileira de Econometria, 2021)
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 ...
The economics of wage-led recovery: analysis and policy recommendations
(2011-07)
The financial crisis and Great Recession have been followed by a jobs shortage crisis that most forecasts predict will persist for years given current policies. This paper argues for a wage-led recovery and growth program ...
The macroeconomic consequences of raising the minimum wage: Capital accumulation, employment and the wage distribution
(2018)
We study the quantitative impact of a rise in the minimum wage on macroeconomic outcomes such as employment, the stock of capital and the distribution of wages. Our modeling framework is the large-firm search and matching ...