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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ñopo, Hugo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, ©2012.
Colección:World Bank e-Library.
Temas:
Sex discrimination against women > Economic aspects > Latin America.
Ethnic relations > Economic aspects.
Discrimination > Economic aspects > Latin America.
Discrimination à l'égard des femmes > Aspect économique > Amérique latine.
Relations interethniques > Aspect économique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Discrimination > Economic aspects
Ethnic relations > Economic aspects
Sex discrimination against women > Economic aspects
Latin America
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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