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 …

This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching … than women, with high cross-country heterogeneity. The unexplained pay gap is higher among older, informal and self …-employed workers and those in small firms. Ethnic wage differences are greater than gender differences, and educational attainment …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

-time work among women. Instead, both women and men tend to prefer fulltime work, although the preference for working longer … that partnered women with children, poor women or women working in the informal sector are more likely to prefer full …-time work than single women, partnered women without children, non-poor women or women working in the formal sector. These …

In this paper, the authors examine levels and trends of labor market outcomes for women in the 1990¿s using household … participation rates, the distribution of employment of women across sectors of the economy (formal versus informal), and earnings … countries. All of these findings suggest a fair degree of change in the role of women within households and in the labor market …

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 …