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Descripción
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This long-term dataset makes three contributions to the statistics of the region. First, it offers yearly series of real wages, consistently defined over time and comparable across countries, informing about trajectories and turning points across distinct development and growth periods. Secondly, the addition of compatible series of income per worker makes it possible to calculate variables on interest such as a proxy for a wage share of income and the wage-to-income ratio. And, thirdly, by including series reflecting three skill levels, the data allows for the calculation of skill premiums, and in particular the skilled-to-unskilled wage ratio.
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Notas
| Descripción del proyecto: This research note documents the revision of a dataset of real wages in Argentina, Brazil , Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela during 1920-2011. This resource was originally published by this journal (RHE-JILAEH) in Astorga (2017). The revision affected all 18 basic wage series plus 6 weighted-average series, with varying degrees of modification. The revised dataset is made available as supplementary material. Regardless of changes to the data, the key findings and conclusions of the 2017 paper still hold.
Metolodogía: Construcción de series temporales anuales. |
