Abstract

VALDIVIA LOPEZ, Marcos  and  PEDRERO NIETO, Mercedes. Work segmentation, education and salary inequality in Mexico. Rev. Mex. Sociol [online]. 2011, vol.73, n.1, pp.139-175. ISSN 2594-0651.

In order to reveal the sociological forces affecting wage inequality in Mexico, this study carries out a stratification based on occupations that reflects the hypothesis of the duality of labor markets by proposing one primary labor sub-market and another secondary one. In particular, it studies wage inequality on the basis of evaluating the way returns to education perform or are affected throughout the various occupation groups structuring the dual labor market. The main result of this exercise indicates that wage premium among the various occupation groups are extremely heterogeneous both within and between sub-markets. The average behavior of the wage premium among educated and less educated workers is not enough to explain the dynamics of their inequality in Mexico in recent years.

Keywords : Wage inequality; labor segmentation; education; occupations.

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