Abstract

CIASCHI, Matías; GALEANO, Luciana  and  GASPARINI, Leonardo. Economic structure and wage inequality: Evidence for Latin America. El trimestre econ [online]. 2021, vol.88, n.349, pp.77-106.  Epub June 18, 2021. ISSN 2448-718X.  https://doi.org/10.20430/ete.v88i349.1078.

This paper studies the evolution of skill premia and its relationship with the productive structure in 16 countries in Latin America, using microdata from house-hold surveys and information from national accounts for the 1991-2015 period. The evidence suggests that the change in the productive structure is significantly correlated to the dynamics of wage inequality. In particular, when the share in total value added of sectors that are more intensive in high-skilled labor grows, the skill premia increases significantly.

Keywords : Inequality; wage gap; economic structure; Latin America; D31; I26; J21; J31.