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 …

This paper complements the findings of Atal, Ñopo and Winder (2009) on gender and ethnic wage gaps for 18 Latin … American countries circa 2005 by analyzing gender wage gaps for the same countries between circa 1992 and circa 2007. During … this span the overall gender earnings gaps dropped about 7 percentage points, while the unexplained component dropped …

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 documents gender disparities in labor earnings for sixty-four countries around the world. Disparities are … partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio-demographic and job characteristics. These characteristics are … used to match males and females such that gender earnings disparities are computed only among individuals with the same …

This paper compares gender wage gaps for Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador from the mid-1990s to the mid …-2000s using the non-parametric matching methodology introduced by Ñopo (2008), which allows an analysis not only of average …, the wage gap is substantial when workers with comparable human capital characteristics are considered. Although the gender …

highest quintile of the wage distribution. -- Matching, Non-parametric ; Gender Wage Gap ; Latin America …Applying the methodology developed in Ñopo (2004), this paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Peru … gender differences in earnings. For the period under analysis, males earn on average 45 percent more than females. This wage …

the role of education is prominent. -- Gender ; race ; wage gaps ; Brazil ; matching …This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the … matching comparison methodology developed by Ñopo (2008). In Brazil, racial wage gaps are more pronounced than those found …

This paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Chile during the period 1992 to 2003 using the … suggest that, besides the high educational attainment of females, there are noticeable gender wage gaps in Chile favoring …

We investigate whether the Big Five Personality Dimensions contribute to explaining gender and migrant wage gaps by … using a linked employer-employee dataset. We expand the scarce literature concerning personality traits and gender wage gaps … associations between the Big Five and wages. The magnitude of this relationship varies across the gender and the migratory status …

In this paper I present a methodology that uses matching comparisons to explain gender differences in wages. The … approach emphasizes gender differences in the supports of the distributions of observable characteristics and provides useful … insights about the distribution of the unexplained gender differences in pay. The proposed methodology, a non …