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The Persistent Gender Earnings Gap in Colombia, 1994-2006

Hoyos, Alejandro; Nopo, Hugo; Pena, 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328205

New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps in Latin America

Atal, Juan Pablo; Nopo, 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328243

Gender Wage Gaps in Central American Countries: Evidence from a Non-Parametric Approach

Enamorado, Ted; Izaguirre, Ana Carolina; Nopo, 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328274

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

Hoyos, Alejandro; Nopo, 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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Income vs. Consumption Inequality in South Korea: Evaluating Stochastic Dominance Rankings by Various Household Attributes

Heshmati, Almas; Rudolf, Robert - 2013

-to-date picture of inequality and poverty by subgroup in South Korea which helps targeting particularly vulnerable groups. Overall …, while inequality in disposable income is found to be often substantial, strong savings preferences of richer households lead … to relatively low consumption inequality. Households headed by elderly, uneducated, divorced or widowed, females and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329075

Evolution of gender wage gaps in latin america at the turn of the twentieth century: An addendum to new century, old disparities

Ñopo, Hugo; Hoyos, Alejandro - 2010

This paper complements the findings of Atal, Ñopo and Winder (2010) 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333010

The Gender Wage Gap in Peru 1986-2000: Evidence from a Matching Comparisons Approach

Ñopo, Hugo - Inter-American Development Bank - 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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The persistent gender earnings gap in Colombia, 1994-2006

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

This paper surveys gender earnings 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, corresponding to the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276061

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278245

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

Ñopo, Hugo - 2009

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