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dc.contributor.authorCastro, Juan Francisco
dc.contributor.authorYamada Fukusaki, Gustavo
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-04T17:49:11Z
dc.date.available2014-08-04T17:49:11Z
dc.date.issued2012-04
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11354/381
dc.identifier.citationCastro, J., & Yamada, G. (2012). “Convexification” and “deconvexification” of the Peruvian wage profile: a tale of declining education quality. Lima: Universidad del Pacífico, Centro de Investigación. Recuperado de http://hdl.handle.net/11354/381es_PE
dc.description.abstractPeruvian average wage profile with respect to schooling is convex. Returns to higher education are around nine percentage points larger than returns to basic education. We explore two possible explanations for this phenomenon: a composition effect driven by differences in individual ability and heterogeneous education quality. We use the theoretical models developed in Card (1994) and Card and Krueger (1996) to analyze the effects that individual ability and education quality can have on the observed relationship between wages and schooling. We test the implications of these models using Peruvian data from a novel survey that includes measures of cognitive skills. We do not find evidence of increasing returns by ability. Instead, empirical results are consistent with the predictions of a model of endogenous schooling with heterogeneous education quality. Evidence suggests that the Peruvian convex wage schedule is the result of two superimposed wage profiles: one corresponding to a low quality basic education system and, the other, to a higher education system with better quality. Declining education quality at basic and higher education, thus, appear to have a role when explaining the “convexification” and recent “deconvexification” of the wage profile, respectively.en
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dc.publisherUniversidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigaciónes_PE
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDocumento de discusión;n° DD/12/02
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dc.sourceRepositorio de la Universidad del Pacífico - UPes_PE
dc.sourceUniversidad del Pacíficoes_PE
dc.subjectSalarios--Perúes_PE
dc.subjectEducación--perúes_PE
dc.title“Convexification” and “deconvexification” of the Peruvian wage profile: a tale of declining education qualityes_PE
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