This book presents a regional overview of gender and ethnic disparities in labor earnings during this last turn of the …. Chapter 3 then examines education in the region, highlighting the reversal of the gender schooling gap. Nowadays, girls attend …

Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact on income of the switch from salaried … appropriate counterfactuals of interest. The results indicate that the income gains associated with the switch from salaried … winners". Additionally, the income changes associated with the reverse switches (from self-employment to salaried jobs) are …

Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact on income of the switch from salaried … appropriate counterfactuals of interest. The results indicate that the income gains associated with the switch from salaried … winners." Additionally, the income changes associated with the reverse switches (from self-employment to salaried jobs) are …

This paper analyzes gender earnings gaps in Barbados and Jamaica, using a matching comparisons approach. In both …’ wages in Jamaica. In the former, the highest earnings gaps are found among low-income workers. Results from both countries … confirm a finding that has been recurrent with this matching approach: the complete elimination of gender occupational …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze gender disparities in labor earnings for a comprehensive set of 64 … are used to match males and females such that gender earnings disparities are computed only among individuals with the … same observable characteristics. Findings – Disparities are partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio …

fieldwork, the econometric work implements a two-stage matching procedure on propensity scores, gender and labor income. This … percent), gender occupational segregation reduces by 30 percent, and females' labor income improves by 93 percent (while males …' earnings increase by 11 percent). Nonetheless, gender equality promotion represents only 1.5 percent of ProJoven's budget …

This paper surveys gender wage gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent to … second and the third. The gender wage gap remains largely unexplained after controlling for different combinations of socio … middle of the wage distributions than the extremes, possibly due to a gender-equalizing effect of the minimum wage. Moreover …