"Educational Expansion and Inequality of Earnings Opportunities: Recent Trends in Latin American Countries"
Jérémie Gignoux

This chapter provides detailed evidence on the recent trends in the distribution of earnings opportunities, among men aged 40 to 49, in a set of five Latin American countries – Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru -, and studies the contribution of the educational expansion observed between the early 1960s to the mid 1980s to these trends.

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