This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily … measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two additional measures from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP …

We investigate differences in earnings penalties associated with working from home (WFH) between groups of gender and … race before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. Using a large and nationally representative longitudinal dataset …

This paper compares gender wage gaps for Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador from the mid-1990s to the mid …, the wage gap is substantial when workers with comparable human capital characteristics are considered. Although the gender … the gender wage gaps is more pronounced among poorer individuals. In Nicaragua, particularly, these unexplained gaps are …

historical wage gaps still exist and are affected by the government in power. Therefore, this study provides evidence of race … segregation are with 7% in terms of the Karmel-Maclachlan index low and lower than respective gender-based segregation over the … same period and have remained constant over the sample period. Most of the race-based occupational segregation is a result …

This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching …-employed workers and those in small firms. Ethnic wage differences are greater than gender differences, and educational attainment …

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 …