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This paper surveys gender wage gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent to … second and the third. The gender wage gap remains largely unexplained after controlling for different combinations of socio … middle of the wage distributions than the extremes, possibly due to a gender-equalizing effect of the minimum wage. Moreover …
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This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching …-employed workers and those in small firms. Ethnic wage differences are greater than gender differences, and educational attainment …
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characteristics that, arguably, should play no role on the determination of wages: gender and ethnicity. This paper analyzes wage gaps … Ñopo (2008). The results indicate ethnic wage gaps that are notably higher than gender wage gaps. Furthermore, ethnic wage …-half of the ethnic wage gaps but only a small fraction of the gender wage gaps. Both gender and ethnic wage gaps are more …
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This paper analyzes gender earnings gaps in Barbados and Jamaica, using a matching comparisons approach. In both … confirm a finding that has been recurrent with this matching approach: the complete elimination of gender occupational … segregation in labor markets would increase rather than reduce gender earnings gaps. The evidence is mixed regarding segregation …
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This paper compares gender wage gaps for Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador from the mid-1990s to the mid …, the wage gap is substantial when workers with comparable human capital characteristics are considered. Although the gender … the gender wage gaps is more pronounced among poorer individuals. In Nicaragua, particularly, these unexplained gaps are …
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This paper complements the findings of Atal, Ñopo and Winder (2009) on gender and ethnic wage gaps for 18 Latin … American countries circa 2005 by analyzing gender wage gaps for the same countries between circa 1992 and circa 2007. During … this span the overall gender earnings gaps dropped about 7 percentage points, while the unexplained component dropped …
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This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the … along the gender divide, although both noticeably decreased over the course of the last decade. The decomposition results … racial wage gaps, observable human capital characteristics account for most of the observed wage gaps, the observed gender …
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This paper investigates the relationship between part-time work and job satisfaction using a recent household survey … from Honduras. In contrast to previous work for developed countries, this paper does not find a preference for part …-time work among women. Instead, both women and men tend to prefer fulltime work, although the preference for working longer …
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wealth accumulation seem to work as substitutes rather than complements in the short run. …
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Se analiza la movilidad social y la acumulación de capital humano entre minorías étnicas en zonas urbanas de México, se exploran los cambios en el logro académico y la situación en el mercado laboral y se emplean datos de panel provenientes de la Encuesta sobre la Vida de la Familia...
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