TY - JOUR
T1 - Regional Wage Gaps, Education and Informality in an Emerging Country
T2 - The Case of Colombia
AU - Herrera-Idárraga, Paula
AU - López-Bazo, Enrique
AU - Motellón, Elisabet
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Regional Studies Association.
PY - 2016/10/1
Y1 - 2016/10/1
N2 - This paper uses Colombian micro-data to analyze the role of education and informality in regional wage differentials. The hypothesis is that apart from differences in the endowment of human capital, regional heterogeneity in the incidence of informality is another important source of regional wage inequality in emerging countries. This is confirmed by the evidence from Colombia, which also reveals remarkable spatial heterogeneity in the wage return to individuals’ characteristics. Regional heterogeneity in returns to education is especially intense in the upper part of the wage distribution. In turn, heterogeneity in the informal pay penalty is more relevant at the bottom.
AB - This paper uses Colombian micro-data to analyze the role of education and informality in regional wage differentials. The hypothesis is that apart from differences in the endowment of human capital, regional heterogeneity in the incidence of informality is another important source of regional wage inequality in emerging countries. This is confirmed by the evidence from Colombia, which also reveals remarkable spatial heterogeneity in the wage return to individuals’ characteristics. Regional heterogeneity in returns to education is especially intense in the upper part of the wage distribution. In turn, heterogeneity in the informal pay penalty is more relevant at the bottom.
KW - Wage differentials
KW - economic development
KW - informal jobs
KW - quantile-based decompositions
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84978946485
U2 - 10.1080/17421772.2016.1190462
DO - 10.1080/17421772.2016.1190462
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84978946485
SN - 1742-1772
VL - 11
SP - 432
EP - 456
JO - Spatial Economic Analysis
JF - Spatial Economic Analysis
IS - 4
ER -
