, and to ultimately take-up a loan. These disparities are significantly reduced when minority borrowers work with minority …

the division of labor and time allocation by gender. …

This paper investigates the relationship between part-time work and job satisfaction using a recent household survey … from Honduras. In contrast to previous work for developed countries, this paper does not find a preference for part …-time work among women. Instead, both women and men tend to prefer fulltime work, although the preference for working longer …

This paper compares gender wage gaps for Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador from the mid-1990s to the mid …, the wage gap is substantial when workers with comparable human capital characteristics are considered. Although the gender … the gender wage gaps is more pronounced among poorer individuals. In Nicaragua, particularly, these unexplained gaps are …

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 …

This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the … along the gender divide, although both noticeably decreased over the course of the last decade. The decomposition results … racial wage gaps, observable human capital characteristics account for most of the observed wage gaps, the observed gender …