Industrial Wage Inequality in Latin America in Global Perspective, 1900-2000

Studies in Comparative International Development

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-74

  Frankema, Ewout ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Factor income distribution; Globalization; Latin America; Skill biased technological change; Wage inequality

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; POST-WAR; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; WAGE GAP;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 84859642563     PISSN: 00393606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12116-011-9091-2     Document Type: Article

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