Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/127603 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Documento de Trabajo No. 89
Publisher: 
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), La Plata
Abstract: 
This paper presents and analyzes a group of statistics which characterize the level and evolution of the labor income polarization in Greater Buenos Aires over the past two decades (1986-2006). The empirical evidence reveals two stages throughout those years: the first one distinguished by an increment of all indices and the second one, by shrinkage of them. Inspecting potential factors which could explain those changes, returns to education surge as the main polarization force in the labor market. Hence, an equalizing distribution of the human capital is a possible alternative for a less polarized labor market.
Subjects: 
polarization
labor
cohesion
inequality
Argentina
Greater Buenos Aires
JEL: 
I3
D3
D6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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