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LABOR INCOME DIFFERENTIALS WITHIN THE LATIN AMERICAN FREE TRADE AREA (LAFTA)
Author(s) -
SalazarCarrillo Jorge
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
review of income and wealth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.024
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1475-4991
pISSN - 0034-6586
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1977.tb00015.x
Subject(s) - economics , wage , latin americans , labour economics , demographic economics , linguistics , philosophy
This article considers the major results of a study of relative wage structures in the LAFTA region. It first discusses the nature and methodology of the study, which was undertaken for ECIEL. Data on the size of labor income differences are introduced, and an attempt is made to determine the causes of such differences, and to relate them to various wage differentials. The main findings of the study are then summarized, with discussions of inter‐country, intra‐country, and occupational labor income differentials and their causes. Finally, the results of the study are updated to the end of 1970, and some conclusions are derived regarding the inter‐temporal behavior of wages in LAFTA.