Several studies have shown that perceptions of inequality vary with individuals’ socioeconomic location: the higher the level of income, the less inequality is perceived. Here we argue that another type of location, the rural or urban area where an individual lives, is an important determinant...

This paper studies a central feature that characterized the changes in wage inequality in Latin America in the 1990s: log wages became a convex function of the level of education. The wage gap between Higher and Intermediate Education increased and the one between Intermediate and Basic...

In the 1990s, in many countries, log wages became a more convex function of education: returns to college increased and returns to intermediate education declined. This paper argues that an important cause of this convexi…cation was a two-stage demand-supply interaction: an increased demand for...