This paper analyzes gender differences in the Chilean labor market, formally addressing the selection of individuals … into schooling levels and its impact on gender gaps. The paper utilizes a new and rich data set containing information on …' family background. Although the results show statistically significant gender differences in several dimensions of the …

This paper analyzes gender differences in three Chilean professional labor markets, business, law and medicine …, utilizing a new and rich data set collected for this purpose. The results show that differences in wages attributed to gender … gender effect and in Medicine, taking into account hours worked, size of firm and region also eliminates gender differences …

The gender of the household head has often been treated as an exogenous determinant of homeownership. This paper argues … household headship in order to properly address the gender effect on housing tenure. Estimating a bivariate probit model, the …

fieldwork, the econometric work implements a two-stage matching procedure on propensity scores, gender and labor income. This … percent), gender occupational segregation reduces by 30 percent, and females' labor income improves by 93 percent (while males …' earnings increase by 11 percent). Nonetheless, gender equality promotion represents only 1.5 percent of ProJoven's budget …

the division of labor and time allocation by gender. …

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 …