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Evolution of gender wage gaps in latin america at the turn of the twentieth century: An addendum to new century, old disparities
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 percentage points, while the unexplained component dropped between 3 and 4 percentage points, depending on the control variables used. The gap declined most notably among workers at the bottom of the earnings distribution, with children at home, the self-employed, part-time workers and those in rural areas - the segments of the labor market that were previously reported as having the highest unexplained gender disparities. Most of the reduction in unexplained gaps occurred within segments rather than due to the composition of labor markets. The paper additionally finds a limited role for job tenure in explaining gender wage gaps.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5086
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Economywide Country Studies: Latin America; Caribbean
- Subject
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gender
wage gaps
Latin America
matching
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Ñopo, Hugo
Hoyos, Alejandro
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2010
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-20100809351
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Ñopo, Hugo
- Hoyos, Alejandro
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2010
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