A distinguish aspect of Brazilian labor market is the enormous wage differentials. In this paper we present a survey about wage differentials determination in Brazil covering articles that deals with wage equation estimations. We report results for roughly 50 articles which covers the relation...

We estimate the returns to education for women and the racial wage differential among women over the wage distribution in Brazil by using quantile regression with semiparametric correction for sample selection. Our estimates show that the returns to education are high and that they are not...

The empirical evidence related to the public-private wage gap in Brazil indicates that workers from the Brazilian public sector earn, on average, higher wages than the private sector ones. This paper surveys three literatures related to this topic. First, it surveys the main studies related to...