Nopo, Hugo; Atal, Juan Pablo; Winder, Natalia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition. It is found that men earn 9-27 percent more than women, with high cross-country...