Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62469 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6806
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
How much are teachers paid in comparison to those in other professions in Latin America? How have these differences evolved at the turn of the 20th century? This paper reports the evolution, between circa 1997 and circa 2007, of teachers' salaries vis-à-vis workers in other professional and technical occupations for thirteen Latin-American countries. After controlling the earnings differentials by observable characteristics linked to productivity it is found that the hourly earnings gap, although substantial, decreased throughout the decade. This has been the case for earnings gaps at the main and secondary jobs, and also for those measured in terms of monthly and yearly earnings. Nonetheless, behind the region averages there is an important cross-country heterogeneity.
Subjects: 
wage differentials
professional labor markets
national and international labor standards
Latin America
Caribbean
JEL: 
J31
J44
J8
O54
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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