Wage Inequality in Latin America understanding the past to prepare for the future

• Main Authors: Messina, Julián, Silva, Joana
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington World Bank Publications 2017; World Bank; The World Bank
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Latin American development forum.
• Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Labor; Wage differentials; WAGE; EARNINGS INEQUALITY; LABOR MARKETS; EDUCATION EXPANSION; INEQUALITY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; LATIN AMERICA; ECONOMIC BOOM; FIRM HETEROGENEITY

This report seeks to explain the over-time trends in wage inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) since the mid-1990s. It explains how wage inequality has been associated with household-income inequality in LAC in the past decades, and discusses how labor-supply and labour-demand trends...