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Formal but less equal : gender wage gaps in formal and informal jobs in Brazil
Ben Yahmed, Sarra - 2016
legislation. I study here how gender wage inequality differs across formal and informal jobs in Brazil. The raw gender wage gap is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571455
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Informality and Productivity in Bolivia: A Gender Differentiated Empirical Analysis
Andersen, Lykke E.; Muriel, Beatriz - 2007
The urban labor market in Bolivia can be divided into 4 main sectors: 1) the public sector, 2) the formal private sector, 3) self-employed informals, and 4) informal workers. Although incomes are generally higher in the public sector and in the formal private sector, there is a strong preference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941036
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Informality and Productivity in Bolivia: A Gender Differentiated Empirical Analysis
Andersen, Lykke E.; Muriel, Beatriz - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2007
The urban labor market in Bolivia can be divided into 4 main sectors: 1) the public sector, 2) the formal private sector, 3) self-employed informals, and 4) informal workers. Although incomes are generally higher in the public sector and in the formal private sector, there is a strong preference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005021926
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Changing returns to occupational skill and women's wages
Schran, Felix - 2019
segregation have reduced wage inequality between men and women. As a first pass, I find that roughly 65% of the decline in the … wage inequality was roughly 13 percentage points larger than the impact of changes in average wages alone. Similar findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121331
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025339
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Gender wage discrimination by distribution of income in Mexico, 2005-2020
Mendoza González, Miguel Ángel - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 29 (2020), pp. 1-20
This paper aims to analyze the hourly gender wage gap between men and women in Mexico for the period 2005-2020. To this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500437
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Informal self-employment in Kazakhstan
Mussurov, Altay; Arabsheibani, G. Reza - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 4 (2015) 9, pp. 1-19
informality amongst self-employed men and women. In addition, the paper examines the response of informality propensities to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603722
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An extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to a Continuum of Comparison Groups
Ñopo, Hugo - 2007
This paper proposes an extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition from two to a continuum of comparison groups. The proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences in urban Peru, exploiting a novel data set that allows the capturing of mestizaje (racial mixtures).
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278233
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Informal self-employment in Kazakhstan
Mussurov, Altay; Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 9, pp. 1-19
informality amongst self-employed men and women. In addition, the paper examines the response of informality propensities to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429984
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The Evolution of gender and racial occupational segregation in Brazil - 1987 to 2006: Differences between formal and non-formal labour markets
Salardi, Paola - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
This paper provides a unique analysis of the evolution of gender and racial occupational segregation in Brazil from 1987-2006. Drawing on a novel dataset, constructed by harmonizing national household data over twenty years, the paper provides extensive new insights in the nature and evolution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878117