Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 938
Cover Image
The persistent gender earnings gap in Colombia, 1994-2006
Hoyos, Alejandro; Nopo, Hugo; Peña-Parga, Ximena - 2010
This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent to which individuals with similar human capital characteristics earn different wages. Three sub-periods are considered: 1994-1998; 2000-2001; and 2002- 2006, corresponding to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688737
Cover Image
Understanding rising income inequality in Germany
Biewen, Martin; Juhasz, Andos - 2010
We examine the causes for rising income inequality in Europe’s most populous economy. From 2000 to 2006, Germany … experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …. Other factors that possibly contributed to the rise in income inequality were changes in the tax system, changes in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688886
Cover Image
New century, old disparities : gender and ethnic gaps in Latin America
Ñopo, Hugo; Atal, Juan Pablo; Winder, Natalia - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779126
Cover Image
Evolution of gender wage gaps in latin america at the turn of the twentieth century : an addendum to "new century, old disparities"
Ñopo, Hugo; Hoyos, Alejandro - 2010
This paper complements the findings of Atal, Ñopo and Winder (2010) 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008780044
Cover Image
Gender earnings gaps in the world
Ñopo, Hugo; Daza, Nancy; Ramos, Johanna - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307419
Cover Image
The gender wage gap in Peru 1986-2000 : evidence from a matching comparisons approach
Ñopo, Hugo - 2009
Applying the methodology developed in Ñopo (2004), this paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Peru from 1986 to 2000. This methodology has two advantages. First, it recognizes that the supports of observable characteristics distributions differ substantially. Second, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003844594
Cover Image
Ethnic and gender wage gaps in Ecuador
Gallardo, Lourdes; Ñopo, Hugo - 2009
Returns to labor for workers with similar endowments of productive characteristics in Ecuador are influenced by two characteristics that, arguably, should play no role on the determination of wages: gender and ethnicity. This paper analyzes wage gaps due to both characteristics in Ecuador for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003844602
Cover Image
Gender and racial wage gaps in Brazil 1996-2006 : evidence using a matching comparisons approach
Marques Garcia, Luana; Ñopo, Hugo; Salardi, Paola - 2009
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 along the gender divide, although both noticeably...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003844605
Cover Image
Evolution of Gender Wage Gaps in Latin America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century : An Addendum to 'New Century, Old Disparities'
Ñopo, Hugo - 2010
This paper complements the findings of Atal, Ñopo and Winder (2010) 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139674
Cover Image
New Century, Old Disparities : Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps in Latin America
Ñopo, Hugo - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139680