Off and Running? Technology, Trade and the Rising Demand for Skilled Workers in Latin America

Off and Running? Technology, Trade and the Rising Demand for Skilled Workers in Latin America

The authors describe the evolution of relative wages in five Latin American countries-Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. They use repeated cross-sections of household surveys, and decompose the evolution of relative wages into factors...

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Main Authors: Sanchez-Paramo, Carolina, Schady, Norbert
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
TECHNOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
TECHNOLOGICAL CAPACITY
SKILLED WORKERS
EMPLOYMENT SKILLS
IMPORT LIBERALIZATION
IMPORT DEMAND
CAPITAL GOODS
LABOR DEMAND
PRODUCTIVITY
WAGE LEVELS
LABOR MARKET CHARACTERISTICS ADDITION
AGED
AGGREGATE DEMAND
ANNUAL CHANGE
AVERAGE SHARE
CHEMISTRY
COMPOSITION
CONSTANT ELASTICITY
CROSS-COUNTRY STUDIES
DEMAND CURVE
DEMAND SIDE
DEMAND-SIDE
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS
ELASTICITY
ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION
ENGINEERING
FRACTIONS
GDP
GINI COEFFICIENT
GROWTH RATES
HOUSEHOLD DATA
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
HUMAN CAPITAL
IMPORTS
INCOME
INEQUALITY
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
LABOR FORCE
LABOR MARKET
LITERATURE
MATHEMATICS
MINIMUM WAGES
NATURAL SCIENCES
NEGATIVE COEFFICIENTS
OBSERVED CHANGES
PHYSICS
POLICY IMPLICATIONS
POLICY RESEARCH
POSITIVE CORRELATION
POSITIVE IMPACT
PRIMARY EDUCATION
PRODUCTION FUNCTION
REAL WAGES
RELATIVE DEMAND
RELATIVE IMPORTANCE
RELATIVE SUPPLY
RELATIVE WAGES
RISING DEMAND
SCHOOLS
SECTOR EMPLOYMENT
SKILLED LABOR
TERTIARY EDUCATION
TIME SERIES
TRADE LIBERALIZATION
UNEMPLOYMENT
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
UNEMPLOYMENT RATES
VALUE ADDED
WAGES
WORKERS
YOUNG WORKERS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/04/2280437/off-running-technology-trade-rising-demand-skilled-workers-latin-america
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18256

Internet

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/04/2280437/off-running-technology-trade-rising-demand-skilled-workers-latin-america
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18256

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