Title: Skills, Exports and the Wages of Seven Million Latin American Workers

Abstract: The returns to schooling and the skill premium are key parameters in various fields and policy debates, including the literatures on globalization and inequality, international migration, and technological change. This paper explores the skill premium and its correlation with exports in Latin America, thus linking the skill premium to the emerging literature on the structure of trade and development...

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Publication ID: 75

Category Description: Indicators for International Trade and Economic Globalization

Publication Type: Paper

Inistitute: NBER

Year: 2010

Month: May

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Author 1: Irene Brambilla

Author 2: Rafael Dix Carneiro

Author 3:Daniel Lederman

Author 4: Guido Porto

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Link: http://www.nber.org/papers/w15996.pdf?new_window=1

Tags: exports , industry-specific skill premiums , Latin America and the Caribbean , national skill premiums ,

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