This article tests the hypothesis of wage discrimination generated by the place of residence. Furthermore, four alternative explanations for the correlation between wages and place of residence are tested. The econometric results are robust to both a large set of explanatory variables and...

The paper investigates the existence of discrimination amongst lawyers in the private sector of the Brazilian labor market. Using the random-effects approach to estimate earnings equations, combined with the Oaxaca-Ransom (1994, 1999) decomposition methodology, we test the hypothesis that wage...