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 decreased over the course of the last decade. The decomposition results …

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 the period 2003-2007, applying a matching comparisons technique developed in … Ñopo (2008). The results indicate ethnic wage gaps that are notably higher than gender wage gaps. Furthermore, ethnic wage …

This paper analyzes gender earnings gaps in Barbados and Jamaica, using a matching comparisons approach. In both … confirm a finding that has been recurrent with this matching approach: the complete elimination of gender occupational … segregation in labor markets would increase rather than reduce gender earnings gaps. The evidence is mixed regarding segregation …

This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent … the first to the second period but remained almost unchanged between the second and the third. The gender earnings gap … the extremes, possibly due to a gender-equalizing effect of the minimum wage. Moreover, the gap is more pronounced for low …

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 …

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 …

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 …