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The Evolution of gender and racial occupational segregation in Brazil - 1987 to 2006: Differences between formal and non-formal labour markets
Salardi, Paola - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
This paper provides a unique analysis of the evolution of gender and racial occupational segregation in Brazil from 1987-2006. Drawing on a novel dataset, constructed by harmonizing national household data over twenty years, the paper provides extensive new insights in the nature and evolution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878117
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Informal-formal wage gaps in Colombia
Daza, Nancy; Gamboa, Luis Fernando - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
This document provides recent evidence about the persistency of wage gaps between formal and informal workers in Colombia. The methodology is based on a non-parametric procedure proposed by Nopo (2008a) that allows us to compare labor incomes using matching on variables over a Nationwide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878139
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Informality and poverty: Are these processes dynamically interrelated? Evidence from Argentina
Devicienti, Francesco; Groisman, Fernando; Poggi, Ambra - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009
causality from poverty to informality, arising from a range of constraints that poverty poses to job holders. Only recently have … empirical researchers tried to study the simultaneous two-way relationship between poverty and informality. However, existing … dynamics of poverty and informality using longitudinal data. Our empirical analysis is based on a bivariate dynamic random …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469026