The economic literature that studies the salary gaps between men and women produced by children. However, there may also be wage gaps between women with children and women without children, which is known as a motherhood wage penalty and whose study for countries such as Bolivia is scarce....

The economic literature that studies the salary gaps between men and women produced by children. However, there may also be wage gaps between women with children and women without children, which is known as a motherhood wage penalty and whose study for countries such as Bolivia is scarce....

The formal Mexican labor market has shown important changes in the last five years: the employment in the industry has been decreasing whereas the employment in the service sector has been increasing. This study looks at the consequence of such changes on the aggregate productivity of the formal...

This paper analyses wage differentials between public and private workers in Uruguay during the nineties. Previous empirical evidence showed the existence of a wage premium for public sector workers when comparing all public vs. private workers. Consideration of skilled and unskilled workers...

In this paper we contrast the Concentration Hypothesis developed by Bergmann (1971 and 1974) for the 1986-1997 period. This “hypothesis” maintain that women concentration in a few occupations caused by discrimination, produce a decrease in wages of all individuals in these occupations. Also,...

We estimate wage differentials across different sectors of the Mexican economy. The results suggest that the wage differential between the formal and informal sectors is significant and larger than the differential between industry and services. The findings suggest that significant differences...

This paper estimates private returns to education in Mexico by means of the Mincer model. The natural ability bias that the literature reports in this type of estimations is tried to be solved using the control function method. Through this method some variables relevant to wage determination...

El presente trabajo tiene por objeto demostrar la existencia de la Tasa de Depreciación del Capital Humano en Argentina, haciendo uso de un modelo sencillo que permita incorporar la obsolescencia de sus dos principales fuentes de acumulación, escolaridad y experiencia. Usando los datos...

Adolescent pregnancy is a latent event in the world, especially in developing countries, and it has consequences of great importance for the young women who face it. This work seeks to demonstrate these consequences in the career of Bolivian women who, although they are not between 15 and 19...

This paper focuses on the effect of educational and skill mismatches of workers on overall job satisfaction, and on certain job domains such as salary, number of working hours, promotion opportunities and type of activity performed. An ordered probit model is estimated by using a data set from...