Technical Change and Polarization of the Labor Market: Evidence for Brazil, Colombia and Mexico

Number: 
614
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
J3, D3, O3
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

We use occupations descriptions for Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, to build computer-use related tasks intensities, and link then to series of cross sections of data of each country in order to empirically assess to what extent the observed empirical regula