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New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean

By on September 01, 2012

This book is about gender and ethnic differences
in labor markets earnings. It revolves around the question: to what
extent the gender (ethnic) differences in earnings are a result of
gender (ethnic) differences in observable individuals' characteristics
that the labor markets reward? Such a 
question is answered with a novel methodological approach based on
matching comparisons, resembling the Oaxaca Blinder (OB) decompositions,
extending their scope. What would the distribution of females' and
males' earnings be if they had equal levels of education, if they worked
the same quantity of hours per week, if they worked in the same kind of
formal jobs, or in firms of the same size? What would happen with the
earnings gap, for instance, if men and women had the same occupations or
were distributed equally through economic sectors? Further on, what
would happen if all men and women in the labor markets were equally
distributed along all of these characteristics at the same time? The
novelty of the methodology introduced in this book is that it allows us
to create fictional labor markets where these counterfactuals are true.
Furthermore, this book addresses not only the extent to which those
differentials can be explained by individuals? characteristics, but also
how have these gaps evolved during the last two decades. In this way,
it allows the discussion of policy options for these pressing issues in
the region.

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Ñopo, Hugo. New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean. , , . , 2012. Ñopo, H. (2012). New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean. , , . Ñopo, Hugo. "New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean." 2012, .Ñopo Hugo. "New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean." (2012). Ñopo, H 2012, 'New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean', , , . Hugo Ñopo, 'New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean' (2012). Ñopo H. New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean. . 2012. Ñopo, Hugo. New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean. . 2012. , .

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