New Century, Old Disparities : Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean
Despite sustained economic growth at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, Latin America and the Caribbean still faces high inequality and weak indicators of well-being among certain population groups. Women, people of African...
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okr-10986-119532021-04-23T14:02:58Z New Century, Old Disparities : Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean Ñopo, Hugo Afrodescendants Indigenous Earnings Ethinicity Gaps Gender Labor Women Despite sustained economic growth at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, Latin America and the Caribbean still faces high inequality and weak indicators of well-being among certain population groups. Women, people of African ancestry, and indigenous peoples are often at the bottom of the income distribution. The share of female-headed households rose in the past 20 years. By the beginning of the 1990s, women headed 1.2 percent of complete households (households in which both husband and wife are present) and 79.8 percent of single- head households. This book presents a regional overview of gender and ethnic disparities in labor earnings during this last turn of the century. Latin America and the Caribbean provide a rich environment for studying social inequality, because historical inequalities along gender and ethnic lines persist, despite positive indicators of economic development. The extent of inequality and its probable causes vary widely across the many countries in the region. The book adopts a sophisticated econometric methodology for measuring earnings gaps and applies it consistently across and within countries to measure gender and racial or ethnic differences. The analysis includes a dynamic dimension that sheds light on the evolution of earnings gaps over time. The book offers important insights on economic and political strategies that could be adopted to reduce inequality. The reduction of gender-based segregation in the workplace represents an area in which policy interventions can improve the efficiency of labor markets. Determining whether addressing occupational rather than hierarchical segregation is more effective is one of the areas of policy design to which this book aims to make a contribution. Latin America and the Caribbean is also a racially and ethnically diverse region, with some 400 ethnic groups. 2012-12-11T18:54:03Z 2012-12-11T18:54:03Z 2012-09-07 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/09/16732496/new-century-old-disparities-gender-ethnic-earnings-gaps-latin-america-caribbean 978-0-8213-8686-6 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11953 English en_US Latin American Development Forum; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ Inter-American Development Bank Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank Publications & Research :: Publication Publications & Research :: Publication Latin America & Caribbean Caribbean Latin America |
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Despite sustained economic growth at the
end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, Latin
America and the Caribbean still faces high inequality and
weak indicators of well-being among certain population
groups. Women, people of African ancestry, and indigenous
peoples are often at the bottom of the income distribution.
The share of female-headed households rose in the past 20
years. By the beginning of the 1990s, women headed 1.2
percent of complete households (households in which both
husband and wife are present) and 79.8 percent of single-
head households. This book presents a regional overview of
gender and ethnic disparities in labor earnings during this
last turn of the century. Latin America and the Caribbean
provide a rich environment for studying social inequality,
because historical inequalities along gender and ethnic
lines persist, despite positive indicators of economic
development. The extent of inequality and its probable
causes vary widely across the many countries in the region.
The book adopts a sophisticated econometric methodology for
measuring earnings gaps and applies it consistently across
and within countries to measure gender and racial or ethnic
differences. The analysis includes a dynamic dimension that
sheds light on the evolution of earnings gaps over time. The
book offers important insights on economic and political
strategies that could be adopted to reduce inequality. The
reduction of gender-based segregation in the workplace
represents an area in which policy interventions can improve
the efficiency of labor markets. Determining whether
addressing occupational rather than hierarchical segregation
is more effective is one of the areas of policy design to
which this book aims to make a contribution. Latin America
and the Caribbean is also a racially and ethnically diverse
region, with some 400 ethnic groups. |
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Ñopo, Hugo |
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Ñopo, Hugo |
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Ñopo, Hugo |
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New Century, Old Disparities : Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean |
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New Century, Old Disparities : Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean |
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New Century, Old Disparities : Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean |
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New Century, Old Disparities : Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean |
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New Century, Old Disparities : Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean |
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new century, old disparities : gender and ethnic earnings gaps in latin america and the caribbean |
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Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank |
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2012 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/09/16732496/new-century-old-disparities-gender-ethnic-earnings-gaps-latin-america-caribbean http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11953 |
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