TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nopo,Hugo
TI  - New century, old disparities : : gender and ethnic earnings gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean 
T2  - Latin American development forum series
SN  - 9780821386866
AV  - HQ1237.5.L29 N69 2012
U1  - 305.80098 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank
KW  - Discrimination
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Sex discrimination against women
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-0-8213-8686-6
ER  -