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 … earnings gap falls within a range between 8 per cent and 48 per cent of average females’ earnings, being more pronounced in …

"Women at Work: Challenges for Latin America" presents a series of empirical studies that use household survey data … from Latin America to analyze trends in female labor force participation rates, the impact of trade liberalization on women …. This book presents evidence that women are overrepresented in the informal sector, which means that a large and growing …

This book presents a regional overview of gender and ethnic disparities in labor earnings during this last turn of the … more years of schooling than boys. After these three introductory chapters, the book then turns to the analysis of earnings …

gender differences in earnings. For the period under analysis, males earn on average 45 percent more than females. This wage …

pronounced at the lower extremes of the earnings distribution. …