We estimate the returns to education for women and the racial wage differential among women over the wage distribution … racial wage differentials are higher at higher points of (the conditional) wage distribution. Black women seem to be facing a … in the inequality observed among higher paid women. The paper also reveals that using a probit specification to the …

This article aims to test empirical implications of the classical Beckerian theory on discrimination against women in … Brazil. Specifically, the contemporary relationship between the relative use of women versus men and the performance, and how … occupational segregation when the test is performed using the standard measure of relative employment of women. We propose a new …

This article aims to test empirical implications of the classical Beckerian theory on discrimination against women in … Brazil. Specifically, the contemporary relationship between the relative use of women versus men and the performance, and how … occupational segregation when the test is performed using the standard measure of relative employment of women. We propose a new …

This study analyses the evolution of women's labor force participation, the contribution of women's earnings to … in the contribution of men's earnings, and an increase in the contribution of both women's earnings and pensions, in the … inequality of per capita household income. The increase in the contribution of women's earnings to inequality is mostly due to …