Real Wages and Skill Premiums during Economic Development in Latin America
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Keywords
wage levels and differentials; economic development; Latin America;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
- N36 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Latin America; Caribbean
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2018-07-09 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-KNM-2018-07-09 (Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy)
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