Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/285103 
Title (translated): 
Disminución en el valor de los títulos y la evolución reciente de la desigualdad salarial: Evidencia de Chile
Year of Publication: 
2023
Citation: 
[Journal:] Estudios de Economía [ISSN:] 0718-5286 [Volume:] 50 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2023 [Pages:] 55-132
Publisher: 
Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Economía, Santiago de Chile
Abstract: 
Using data from nationally and regionally representative household surveys, we analyze the association between the changes in coefficients of dummy variables for higher education degrees in the wage equation and evolution of wage inequality in Chile from 2013-2017. Employing a decomposition method using unconditional quantile regressions, we find that a significant decline in the coefficients of professional degrees, especially from new private universities, with a larger magnitude at upper quantiles, is associated with a substantial reduction in wage inequality. The results are robust to the correction for sample selection bias and control for workers' occupation and firm size categories.
Subjects: 
Higher education
wage inequality
JEL: 
I23
I24
I26
J31
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article

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