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...

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...

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,...

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....

El desplazamiento forzado interno en Colombia, que ha impactado a una décima parte de la población, no cesa, y persiste la situación de vulnerabilidad social y humanitaria de los desplazados. En este trabajo se construye un índice de goce efectivo de derechos, a través del cual se concluye...

Los resultados laborales de los universitarios recién graduados son un tema de interés no solo para aquellos individuos considerando las alternativas de inversión en capital humano, sino también para el entendimiento del funcionamiento de los mercados laborales en Colombia y sus regiones....

Los programas de generación de ingresos hacen parte de la política de ayuda hacia la población desplazada. La estimación de un modelo estructural de decisión con una muestra representativa de hogares colombianos desplazados de 2004, permite identificar que los beneficiarios reciben salarios...

In this article we estimate the wage gap between white people and Afro-American people in Cali by using data from the survey of employment and quality of life of 2013. The estimation is weighted by the number of individuals that recognize themselves as Afro-American as a measure of statis- tical...

Monthly wage series with quarterly periodicity between December 1994 and December 2004 for thirteen regions in Chile are presented in this paper. These series are based on the information recollected by the Superintendencia de Fondos de Pensiones (Pensions Fund Superintendence), but are...