Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/51472
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 681
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department, Washington, DC
Abstract: 
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 decreased over the course of the last decade. The decomposition results show that differences in observable characteristics play a crucial role in explaining wage gaps. While in the case of racial wage gaps, observable human capital characteristics account for most of the observed wage gaps, the observed gender wage gaps have the opposite sign than what the differences in human capital characteristics would predict. In both cases the role of education is prominent.
Subjects: 
Gender
race
wage gaps
Brazil
matching
JEL: 
C14
D31
J16
O54
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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