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The persistent gender earnings gap in Colombia, 1994 - 2006

Hoyos, Alejandro; Ñopo, Hugo; Peña-Parga, Ximena - 2010

This paper surveys gender wage gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent to which individuals with similar human capital characteristics earn different wages. Three sub-periods are considered: 1994-1998; 2000- 2001; and 2002- 2006. The gaps dropped from the...

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Evolution of gender gaps in Latin America at the turn of the twentieth century : an addendum to new century, old disparities

Hoyos, Alejandro; Ñopo, Hugo - 2010

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...

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New century, old disparities : gender and ethnic wage gaps in Latin America

Atal, Juan Pablo; Ñopo, Hugo; Winder, Natalia - 2009

This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition. It is found that men earn 9-27 percent more than women, with high cross-country...

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Gender wage gaps in Central American countries : evidence from a non-parametric approach

Enamorado, Ted; Izaguirre, Carolina; Ñopo, Hugo - 2009

This paper compares gender wage gaps for Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s using the non-parametric matching methodology introduced by Ñopo (2008), which allows an analysis not only of average gaps but also their distributions. While a simple...

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Inclusión social en Panamá : la población Indígena

Inchauste, Gabriela; Cancho, Cesar - 2010

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Do marriage markets influence the divorce hazard?

Hyee, Raphaela - 2011

male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings …

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Party age and party color : new results on the political economy of redistribution and inequality

Keefer, Philip; Milanović, Branko - 2014

This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries …

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Nonlinear household earnings dynamics, self-insurance, and welfare

De Nardi, Mariacristina; Fella, Giulio; Paz Pardo, Gonzalo - 2018

inequality over the life cycle and of the individual-level degree of consumption insurance against persistent earnings shocks …

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Monetary policy and wealth inequality over the great recession in the UK : an empirical analysis

Mumtaz, Haroon; Theophilopoulou, Angeliki - 2019

inequality from 2005 to 2016 at the monthly frequency. We investigate the dynamic relationship between monetary policy and the … evolution of wealth inequality measures. Our findings suggest that expansionary monetary policy shocks lead to an increase in … wealth inequality and contributed significantly to its fluctuations. This effect is heterogenous across the wealth …

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Income risk inequality : evidence from Spanish administrative records

Arellano, Manuel; Bonhomme, Stéphane; De Vera, Micole; … - 2021

In this paper we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality … inversely related to income and age, and income risk inequality increases markedly in the recession. These findings are robust …

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