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Understanding rising income inequality in Germany

Biewen, Martin; Juhasz, Andos - 2010

We examine the causes for rising income inequality in Europe's most populous economy. From 2000 to 2006, Germany … experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …. Other factors that possibly contributed to the rise in income inequality were changes in the tax system, changes in the …

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The gender wage gap in Peru 1986-2000 : evidence from a matching comparisons approach

Ñopo, Hugo - 2009

Applying the methodology developed in Ñopo (2004), this paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Peru from 1986 to 2000. This methodology has two advantages. First, it recognizes that the supports of observable characteristics distributions differ substantially. Second, it...

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Ethnic and gender wage gaps in Ecuador

Gallardo, Lourdes; Ñopo, Hugo - 2009

Returns to labor for workers with similar endowments of productive characteristics in Ecuador are influenced by two characteristics that, arguably, should play no role on the determination of wages: gender and ethnicity. This paper analyzes wage gaps due to both characteristics in Ecuador for...

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Gender and racial wage gaps in Brazil 1996-2006 : evidence using a matching comparisons approach

Marques Garcia, Luana; Ñopo, Hugo; Salardi, Paola - 2009

This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the matching comparison methodology developed by Ñopo (2008). In Brazil, racial wage gaps are more pronounced than those found along the gender divide, although both noticeably...

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Gender earnings gaps in the world

Ñopo, Hugo; Daza, Nancy; Ramos, Johanna - 2011

This paper documents gender disparities in labor earnings for sixty-four countries around the world. Disparities are partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio-demographic and job characteristics. These characteristics are used to match males and females such that gender...

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The persistent gender earnings gap in Colombia, 1994 - 2006

Hoyos, Alejandro; Ñopo, Hugo; Peña-Parga, Ximena - 2010

This paper surveys gender wage gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent to which individuals with similar human capital characteristics earn different wages. Three sub-periods are considered: 1994-1998; 2000- 2001; and 2002- 2006. The gaps dropped from the...

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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

Hoyos, Alejandro; Ñopo, Hugo - 2010

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...

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New century, old disparities : gender and ethnic wage gaps in Latin America

Atal, Juan Pablo; Ñopo, Hugo; Winder, Natalia - 2009

This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition. It is found that men earn 9-27 percent more than women, with high cross-country...

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Gender wage gaps in Central American countries : evidence from a non-parametric approach

Enamorado, Ted; Izaguirre, Carolina; Ñopo, Hugo - 2009

This paper compares gender wage gaps for Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s using the non-parametric matching methodology introduced by Ñopo (2008), which allows an analysis not only of average gaps but also their distributions. While a simple...

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New century, old disparities : gender and ethnic gaps in Latin America

Ñopo, Hugo; Atal, Juan Pablo; Winder, Natalia - 2010

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