importance of structural change in reducing gender disparities by decreasing the labor demand for physical attributes. The … results show that India, the country with the greatest physical labor requirements, exhibits the largest labor market gender … inequality. In contrast, Brazil's labor requirements have followed a similar trend seen in the United States, reducing gender …

This paper analyzes gender and ethnic wage gaps in Guatemala for the period 2000-2006, applying a matching comparisons … technique, finding pronounced wage gaps along both gender and ethnic dimensions, the latter being greater. Wage gaps in … Guatemala are partially explained by differences in human capital characteristics, especially education, between indigenous and …

Applying the methodology developed in Ñopo (2004), this paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Peru … gender differences in earnings. For the period under analysis, males earn on average 45 percent more than females. This wage …

determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and, to a …