New century, old disparities : gender and ethnic earnings gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean /
After a sustained economic growth period at the end of the last century and the beginning of this one, Latin America still faces high inequality and lower well-being indicators among women, afro-descendants, and indigenous peoples. This is a period in which the world and particularly Latin America h...
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Washington, D.C. :
Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank,
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Ronald Oaxaca
- Acknowledgements
- Overview
- Education : girls outpaced boys
- Some basics : the methodology and the data
- Gender earnings gaps in the region : more schooling but lower earnings
- The mostly unexplained gender earnings gap : Peru, 1997-2009
- Is segregation at the workplace a culprit for earnings gaps? : Mexico, 1994-2004
- Low female participation and high males : overtime : Chile, 1992-2009
- The resilient wage gap : Colombia, 1994-2006
- Equality promotion in the country with the highest earnings gaps of the region : brazil, 1996-2006
- Gender wage gaps in a country with a large indigenous population : Ecuador, 2003-2007
- Higher gender wage gaps among the poorest : Central American countries
- The understudied caribbean : Barbados and Jamaica
- Overlapping disadvantages : ethnicity and earnings gaps
- Efforts for equality promotion that start to show results : Brazil, 1996-2006
- No good jobs and lower earnings : Ecuador, 2000-2007
- Differentials for big minorities : Guatemala, 2000-2006
- As a way of summarizing and outlining some policy options.