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Evolution of Gender Gaps in Latin America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: An Addendum to "New Century, Old Disparities"

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  • Alejandro Hoyos
  • Hugo Nopo

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This paper complements the findings of Atal, Ñopo and Winder (2009) 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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Paper provided by Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department in its series Research Department Publications with number 4665.

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Date of creation: May 2010
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Handle: RePEc:idb:wpaper:4665

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Keywords: Gender; Wage gaps; Latin America; Matching;

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  1. Las mujeres en los mercados de trabajo de América Latina: Avances y desafíos
    by Hugo Ñopo in Foco Económico on 2011-10-25 12:00:00
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  1. Adrián Rubli, 2012. "La importancia de corregir por el sesgo de selección en el análisis de las brechas salariales por género: un estudio para Argentina, Brasil y México," Ensayos Revista de Economia, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Facultad de Economia, vol. 0(2), pages 1-36, November.

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