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 …

In this paper I present a methodology that uses matching comparisons to explain gender differences in wages. The … approach emphasizes gender differences in the supports of the distributions of observable characteristics and provides useful … insights about the distribution of the unexplained gender differences in pay. The proposed methodology, a non …

This paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Chile during the period 1992 to 2003 using the … suggest that, besides the high educational attainment of females, there are noticeable gender wage gaps in Chile favoring …

interaction between rent-sharing and wages on the gender wage gap. The empirical findings show that individual compensation is … be 14 percent and it is insignificantly different between genders. With respect to the overall gender wage gap (on … average women earn 28 percent less than men), the results show that within firms there is no gender discrimination and that 12 …

gender attentiveness among MBA students and tolerance for large variability in CEO pay. …

using matching methods. Because precise estimation of the expected counterfactual is particularly important in regions …

Propensity score matching is widely used in treatment evaluation to estimate average treatment effects. Nevertheless …