importance of structural change in reducing gender disparities by decreasing the labor demand for physical attributes. The … results show that India, the country with the greatest physical labor requirements, exhibits the largest labor market gender … inequality. In contrast, Brazil's labor requirements have followed a similar trend seen in the United States, reducing gender …

This paper analyzes gender and ethnic wage gaps in Guatemala for the period 2000-2006, applying a matching comparisons … technique, finding pronounced wage gaps along both gender and ethnic dimensions, the latter being greater. Wage gaps in … Guatemala are partially explained by differences in human capital characteristics, especially education, between indigenous and …

With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the …

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 …

-national portrait of gender and poverty shift when we consider person-level income as well as household-level income? We conclude that …: women's market income lags men's everywhere; public income transfers matter for reducing poverty disparities by gender …

family. Moreover, there is growing evidence that the gender distribution of wealth matters. This paper first reviews the … available evidence for developing countries on the gender asset gap and finds that it is significant. It then considers the … considers the impact of women’s land ownership on household income and welfare. – women ; assets ; gender inequality ; marital …