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| Title: | | Changes in wage structure in Mexico going beyond the mean: An analysis of differences in distribution, 1987 - 2008  |
| Authors: | | Tello, Claudia Ramos, Raul Artís, Manuel |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6576 |
| Abstract: | | This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the relationship between wage inequality, employment structure, and returns to education in urban areas of Mexico during the past two decades (1987-2008). Applying Melly's (2005) quantile regression based decomposition, we find that changes in wage inequality have been driven mainly by variations in educational wage premia. Additionally, we find that changes in employment structure, including occupation and firm size, have played a vital role. This evidence seems to suggest that the changes in wage inequality in urban Mexico cannot be interpreted in terms of a skill-biased change, but rather they are the result of an increasing demand for skills during that period. |
| Subjects: | | wage inequality quantile regressions decompositionwage inequality quantile regressions decomposition |
| JEL: | | J31 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201301214032 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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