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 …

This paper complements the findings of Atal, Ñopo and Winder (2010) 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 …

This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent … the first to the second period but remained almost unchanged between the second and the third. The gender earnings gap … the extremes, possibly due to a gender-equalizing effect of the minimum wage. Moreover, the gap is more pronounced for low …

We analyze differences by gender in the time dedicated to total work (paid and unpaid) by families in Latin America … between countries in terms of the gender distribution of total work (paid work plus unpaid work), with Colombia and Peru being … men and women spend similar amounts of time in total work. When considering the social norms that explain gender …