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 …

This study investigates the importance of gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students for school … likely to obtain better test scores in Mathematics, when the share of teachers of the same gender as the student increases … teachers increases. The positive same-gender effect on test scores is counteracted by a negative assessment effect. That is …

of grade 9 students (16 years old). I examine whether there are systematic differences correlated with gender and ethnic …

in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …

This paper studies gender differences in labor market outcomes using data from an Internetbased CV database. The women … explained by differences in geographical search area. When we take into account differences in search area, the negative gender … effect disappears. However, the results differ somewhat across subgroups: For highly skilled women a negative gender effect …